Die Architektur einer virtuellen Maschine für UML

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Vortrag bei der Gruppe Claus Lewerentz am Institut für Informatik an der Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus.

Zusammenfassung

Current software development tools let developers model a software system and generate program code from the models to run the system. However, generating code and installing a non-trivial system induces a time delay between changing the model and executing it that makes rapid model prototyping awkward if not impossible. This paper presents the architecture of a virtual machine for UML that interprets UML models without any intermediate code-generation step. The paper shows how to embed UML in a metalevel architecture so that a key property of model-based systems, the causal connection between models and model instances, is guaranteed. With this architecture, changes to a model have immediate effects on its execution, providing users with rapid feedback about the model's structure and behavior. This approach supports model innovation better than today's code-generation approaches.

Zum Vortragenden

Dirk Riehle is a software developer and researcher. His primary technical interests are object-oriented software architecture and large-scale software system construction. He was the main architect behind the first UML virtual machine, developed in 1999-2001. Dirk Riehle has a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. His website is www.riehle.org and he enjoys receiving feedback.

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