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The beta version of UML 2.5 is now available at https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5/Beta1/. ...
Date: 10/30/2012
When UML 2.4 was released we discovered an issue that meant it was impossible to interchange...
Date: 10/24/2011
Last week I was at the OMG meeting in Salt Lake City. A high point of the meeting was issuing a...
Date: 06/27/2011
I’ll be off to Salt Lake City in a couple of weeks for the next OMG meeting. One thing I’m going to...
Date: 06/03/2011
I just finished participating in the OMG meeting in Arlington. Our work on UML 2.5 is moving along,...
Date: 03/28/2011
Alan Wills has created a new sample that pulls together several of the capabilities of our...
Date: 02/21/2011
Finally we have completed all of the technical processes for creating UML 2.4. Now it just has to go...
Date: 01/26/2011
I’m back from the OMG meeting in Santa Clara. We talked a lot about the future of UML. Just about...
Date: 12/13/2010
There is an XMI 2.1 Exporter now available for VS2010 UML Tools. It is available as source code in...
Date: 11/26/2010
I’m currently hurtling through the French countryside at some significant fraction of the speed of...
Date: 11/26/2010
I had a conversation recently in which the following three use cases for UML were suggested: UML as...
Date: 11/18/2010
Jean Bézivin is telling the story of UML on his blog. His post on How to choose the good ingredients...
Date: 11/15/2010
I’d like to explore the idea that UML could be made more useful to mainstream developers if it were...
Date: 10/19/2010
I just arrived back from the Object Management Group’s September meeting in Cambridge (the one...
Date: 09/27/2010
Our DSL Tools book website at https://www.domainspecificdevelopment.com/ has been updated with...
Date: 08/20/2010
I have co-written a paper about the future of UML with Ivar Jacobson. You can find it here. Let me...
Date: 06/07/2010
Back in 1994 I co-authored a book on modelling with my colleague John Daniels. We called our...
Date: 04/23/2010
I’ve recently become a signatory to SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory). They’ve been...
Date: 04/02/2010
I’ve just finished the OMG meeting in Jacksonville. I got my first taste of the Board of Directors:...
Date: 03/26/2010
I shall be speaking at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference on 31st March, soon after arriving...
Date: 01/29/2010
We’ve all been working very hard on beta 2 which is now available – see Cameron's announcement. I’ve...
Date: 10/20/2009
Reminder: the closing date for submissions to the Future Development of UML RFI is the 17th August....
Date: 07/31/2009
Last time I explained about Parts using a small example. But the idea of Parts can extend equally...
Date: 06/23/2009
Recently I have spend quite a lot of time working out proposals to fix problems in the definition of...
Date: 06/17/2009
Keith Short has announced that the next Oslo CTP will include support for loading UML models into...
Date: 05/28/2009
Following close on the heels of VS2010 Beta1, we've announced the corresponding DSL SDK (oh those...
Date: 05/22/2009
I see I haven't written anything here since February. I've been very busy on two main fronts - lots...
Date: 05/21/2009
Alan Cameron Wills has started blogging about UML for Agile Development. This should be...
Date: 02/02/2009
Last week I attended the OMG's technical meeting in Santa Clara. I was pleased that the Analysis and...
Date: 12/15/2008
Datum is singular. Data is plural. So we ought to talk about these data and many data and fewer...
Date: 11/27/2008
Cameron has been blogging about new features in our product.. In a recent post he used the term...
Date: 11/27/2008
Keith Short has been blogging about Oslo and the DSL Toolkit and Oslo's use of model-driven...
Date: 11/21/2008
Stuart has blogged about the new features expected in DSL Tools in VS 2010. There's plenty new...
Date: 11/05/2008
So what really is the difference between syntax and semantics in UML? Firstly there is the notation,...
Date: 11/02/2008
If you want more details about the tools we're building, Cameron Skinner gives an overview of the...
Date: 10/21/2008
The most familiar UML diagram is the class diagram. A class diagram can mean many different things....
Date: 10/13/2008
So is UML really contradictory to DSLs? Do they really represent different philosophies? I don’t...
Date: 10/07/2008
Last week I attended an OMG meeting for the first time in almost 6 years. If you don’t know, the OMG...
Date: 09/29/2008
A slightly belated hello to Eyal who has joined the DSL Tools team in Cambridge. Welcome Eyal!
Date: 09/19/2008
We've just announced our membership of the Object Management Group. As Cameron says, I shall be at...
Date: 09/11/2008
See the VSX team blog.
Date: 08/21/2008
The website for our DSL book has been updated - thanks Gareth. This includes downloadable versions...
Date: 07/23/2008
Slides from the CG2008 conference are posted here. Clemens Reijnen blogged about it, and is posting...
Date: 07/21/2008
Having spent a year in the Visual Studio Ecosystem team helping to integrate the DSL Tools deeper...
Date: 06/25/2008
James and Jean-Marc are kicking off their European tour in Brussels. Gareth has found some more...
Date: 05/20/2008
Jean-Marc has joined our team! He brings some great new ideas and energy to what we're doing and I'm...
Date: 04/18/2008
I spent some of this afternoon looking at a problem reported on the VSX forum. The questioner has...
Date: 04/14/2008