Imporved UML. (Software Tools).Popkin Software, product, System Architect, now offers improved Unified Modelling Language (UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. ) functionality. New feature highlights include richer semantic See semantics. See also Symantec. and notational support for much of the newly adopted UML 1.4 specification, and a package-based user interface that makes navigating (networking, hypertext) navigating - Finding your way around. Often used of the Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web. A browser is a tool for navigating hypertext documents. in UML more intuitive. The newest release offers the ability to extend UML modesl by adding user-defined images, enabling support of all UML profiles including Web Application Extensions (WAB WAB Windows Address Book (file extension for Microsoft Outlook and Exchange) WAB Western Academy of Beijing WAB Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. ). System Architect is a modelling tool set designed to address modelling needs within an organisation, including business processiong, objects, components and data using a shared, multi-user repository, Other new features include: * Cross-reference matrix editor that allows users to correlate design artefacts across the repository * Support for package-based development, to facilitate the organisation of information and improve product quality "Support for semantic integrity of UML models * Improved user customisation, including the ability to extend the UML model with stereotypes and tagged values. Users can personalise Verb 1. personalise - make personal or more personal; "personalized service" personalize, individualise, individualize alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth symbols with user-defined rastor or vector-based images. Customisation enables users to present a more-accurate-and clearer representation of the system or program * Integrated support for Web Application Extensions (WAB), enabling users to design and present a more accurate model of Web designs to other developers and management System Architect also provides business and process modelling, traditional structured analysis and design techniques (modeling) Structured Analysis and Design Technique - (SADT) A function modeling method for analysing and communicating the functional perspective of a system. SADT was commissioned by The United States Air Force. IDEF0 was derived from SADT. , It ships with a selection of generators and interfaces for application developers. A multi-user repository aids workgroup development. Forward and reverse engineering is supported in most major languages, including Java, C++ and Visual Basic, and databases, including Oracle, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and DB2. www.popkin.com |
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