From UML to IDL: a case study

Author

Watkins, Damien ; Dick, Martin ; Thompson, Dean

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

fYear

1998

fDate

23-26 Nov 1998

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

153

Abstract

Over the last two decades there has been an increase in the number of distributed object oriented systems being developed. To assist the development of these systems a number of object oriented modelling techniques have been developed. The Unified Modeling Language was principally designed to combine a number of methodologies into one. As this paper identifies, there are a number of limitations which exist between the mapping of UML designs into IDL. One solution has been to introduce additional keywords into IDLs to provide richer semantics. This paper demonstrates how semantics can be added to interfaces without extending interface definition languages and hence provide software developers with a mechanism to express the dynamic constraints of a distributed object oriented systems

Keywords

application program interfaces; distributed object management; formal specification; object-oriented languages; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; programming language semantics; IDL; Unified Modeling Language; distributed object oriented systems; dynamic constraints; interface definition languages; interfaces; keywords; object oriented modelling techniques; semantics; software development; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Design methodology; Engineering management; Information technology; Object oriented modeling; Software development management; Software engineering; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 28. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0053-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1998.750031

Filename

750031