{"id":24,"date":"2004-02-04T18:25:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T22:13:12","slug":"uml-as-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"UML As Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn his <a href=\"http:\/\/martinfowler.com\/bliki\/ModelDrivenArchitecture.html\">weblog<\/a> Martin Fowler expressed an interesting opinion about Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the use of UML.<br \/>\nHe speaks out what I have experienced in a lot of projects. The model driven approach is heavyweight and often impractical.<br \/>\nOne reason might be the lack of reliable and fast,handy tools especially when it comes to code generation, an other is the inaccuracy of UML in terms of programming languages.<br \/>\nOften this leads to a &#8220;overstereotyped&#8221; models which are almost useless outside the problem domain and for new team members as well. I&#8217;m curious about MDA will change that.<\/p>\n<p>UML is great. I recommend to use it but mostly to communicate design ideas to others.<br \/>\nThe rest of the documentation can be easily generated from the sourcefiles, e.g. with javadoc or C# xmldoc.<br \/>\nWhat is your experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his weblog Martin Fowler expressed an interesting opinion about Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and the use of UML. He speaks out what I have experienced in a lot of projects. The model driven approach is heavyweight and often impractical. One reason might be the lack of reliable and fast,handy tools especially when it comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/?p=24\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UML As Sketch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}