Know Your UML With XML

Overview

Software technology has evolved to the point where big systems have become so complex that they are no longer simply specified in human language and programmed in computer language. Indeed, using UML (Unified Modeling Language) to model new software has become a de facto standard approach to building big systems. It isn't easy to get information out of UML models by using current modeling environments. Querying model data is nevertheless possible by means of the transformation described in this paper. It is shown that it is quite easy to pipe together current industry standards to transform a UML model into a database of software system knowledge in Oracle Database 10g, and it can be done without any programming and with nearly no work.