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UML® is well
accepted in the market and widely used.
Nevertheless most SW Projects still fall short of
expectations. According to the latest Chaos
Report, in 2002 only 23% of SW development
projects were finished successfully. Therefore it
is time for the next generation of modeling tools
and high time for Ameos.
Ameos combines
UML 2.0 Profile support, MDA® based Model
Transformation and the usage of color in a unique
fashion. This ensures a higher level of
abstraction in the models and target-independent
modeling.
UML Support
By implementing the
current UML® standard Ameos can be used to
describe business processes, to design
architectures for SW systems and to model dynamic
aspects in State Machines with hard timing
constraints. The Model management of the UML is an
integrated part of Ameos and allows distributed
working, private workspaces and the configuration
of new versions. The Ameos Multi-User Repository
ensures an appropriate scaling even in large
projects.
UML 2.0 Profile Support
 Profiles are an easy way to
extend standard UML notation and to adapt it to
project-specific needs. UML 2.0 describes Profiles
and defines how to model them in UML notation. The
Ameos Profile Editor allows stereotypes and tagged
values to be defined and assigned to model
elements of the UML Metamodel, ensuring that
profiles are well designed, documented and easy to
use for the entire project team.
Color to visualize Semantics
Within
Ameos, color can be assigned to UML Profiles and
to Model Elements. Wherever such a Model Element
is referenced, it shows up in the assigned color.
This usage of color on a semantic level, lead to
UML models which are far easier to read.
Architecture (MDA) Development
 ACD™ is a powerful
Transformation Engine, based on OMG's Model Driven
Architecture®. (MDA). The idea behind it is to
separate the technical aspects from the domain
aspects in the UML. model and generate code from
WYSIWYG templates. The main MDA benefits as stated
by the OMG are:
- Reducing costs of development
- Better quality, better ROI
- Much faster use of new technologies
- Better re-use of domain aspect
Why is transformation of UML Models
necessary?
Today many systems are
described graphically using the UML which provides
several diagram types as well as many graphical
and textual elements to capture and model the
requirements of a system. While this enables a
greater understanding of the user and system
requirements, only a small amount of these model
elements are typically realized in the implemented
system as source code. This leads to models which
are constructed to achieve maximum code
generation, rather than accurately representing
the business or user requirements in a
maintainable way. Instead of having a Business
Model, this will result in an Implementation
Model, which is difficult to read and difficult to
maintain. Any change of the target technology or
middleware will break the model. The separation of
the technical and domain aspects of modeling
improves the clarity and reuse opportunities for
both these aspects of the design.
Model Driven Architecture
 OMG's Model Driven
Architecture, a more sophisticated way of using
the UML, provides a solution to this kind of
problem. Using MDA, the business is modeled in
Platform Independent Models (PIM) which are
transformed into Platform Specific Models (PSM).
This is carried out in a manner analogous to the
use of a compiler to transform C++ or Java source
code into an executable program. MDA is not a
revolution, but evolution using the next level of
abstraction.
As a member of the OMG, Aonix
has promoted the idea of transforming UML models
to the target environment using Ameos/ACD for the
past several years. As a result we have a lot of
experience with this approach and many satisfied
customers in various industries.
Ameos is available for Linux, Solaris (SPARC),
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