Welcome

The UML Forum is a web community dedicated to the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the industry-standard visual modeling language for specifying software-intensive systems. Here you can find information related to UML specifications, UML tools, UML training, UML methods, UML publications, and UML mailing lists.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing and documenting the artifacts of software-intensive systems. The UML was originally derived from the object modeling languages of three leading object-oriented methods: Booch, Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE). It was first added to the list of Object Management Group (OMG) adopted technologies in 1997, and has since become the industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems.

You are encouraged to explore the following major areas of our web:

• FAQ - Answers to Frequently Asked Questions related to UML.
• Specifications - Download the latest UML specifications.
• Tools - Selected UML modeling tools.
• Training - Selected UML training resources.
• Methods - Selected UML methods and processes.
• Publications - Selected UML books, papers, articles, and blogs.
• Mailing List - UML Forum mailing list for all topics related to UML.
• News - News related to UML specifications and tools.
• Other Resources - furnishes links to other visual modeling resources.

If you want to have your UML modeling tool, training service, method, book, paper or blog included in our web, please submit it to the UML Forum for review by clicking here. For more information about the UML please read our Frequently Asked Questions page and subscribe to the UML Forum mailing list.

News

June 3, 2008 - UML Renaissance or Apocalypse?: Bill Gates Reveals UML Strategy at TechEd 2008.
During his TechEd 2008 keynote presentation, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates revealed that the Oslo-wave release of Visual Studio Team Studio will support the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Gates said the keynote was his "last public speech as a full-time chairman of Microsoft," and he covered a wide range of topics related to future technology advances. Although the Microsoft founder acknowledged "that the modeling world is fairly disparate today," he stated that Microsoft will have additional support for UML in Visual Studio 10 for the specific modeling tools that are there." Will this mark a renaissance for UML modeling or is it just more Muddle Driven Marketecture by a software giant in decline? For the text of Gates' keynote click here.

May 19, 2008. – UPDM 1.0 Beta Fails to Pass Standards Gate; Major Tool Vendors Absent from New UPDM Group.
The UPDM Group today announced its formation and intent to develop an improved version of the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), a modeling standard that supports both the US Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF). The UPDM Group is independent of the Object Management Group, the standards organization which issued a UPDM RFP in 2005 and adopted UPDM 1.0 Beta in 2007, but whose UPDM Finalization Task Force failed to produce a final specification acceptable to OMG members and key government stakeholders by its March 2008 deadline.  Although the initial list of UPDM Group members includes defense contractors and vendors, several major UML modeling tool vendors (IBM, Telelogic, Sparx Systems) who contributed to UPDM 1.0 Beta are conspicuously absent. For the UPDM Group press release click here.

May 15, 2008. - Are Reports of UML's Demise Being Exaggerated?
In an article entitled "13 reasons for UML's descent into darkness" Daniel Pietraru claims that "UML [has] lost the programmers." The author suggests that UML is becoming irrelevant to programmers due to causes that include design-by-committee syndrome, vendor greed, and concept bloat. Is UML usage waning or waxing? Is the quest for Round-Trip Engineering suffering a major setback? For Pietraru's article on the "little tutorials" web site click here.

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