A Standards-based UML-Profile for Message-Based Information Dissemination

Speaker: Joern Guy Suess

When: 10:00, Friday, 14 October 2005

Venue: 78-621

Integration of information systems using message queues and XML-Documents is attractive, because it is comparatively simple to establish and reliable in operation. Combined with transformation it has even been called the "preferred EAI engine"[Linthicum99]. Resulting projects however are difficult to manage, because requirements are hard to traced over a large number of components. This thesis started from the idea to bring the integrative power of a UML model to bear in a Profile and Method for modelling this domain, while exclusively relying on means defined in the UML standard itself. Involuntarily, this led to a practical verification of the claim that OCL and the UML metamodel had sufficient expressive power to tailor the language to a modelling domain other than object-oriented modelling. In this sense, this thesis contributed to the debate about the application of UML a well-founded analysis of the capabilities, deficiencies and implications of the language when it is applied as a drawing board to design systems, while adhering to the UML's specification as closely as possible. The quintessence is that while the mechanisms have been proposed about seven years ago, up to the present date neither the necessary tools, nor complete examples have been available. As these were provided as a side-effect of the thesis, it also yielded a practical contribution to the community.

Hospitality: Luke Wildman

Contact: Phil Cook (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (philc@itee.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html