savas parastatidis

Eric Newcomer on UML and MDA

Eric posted some comments on the use of UML and MDA. This is the last paragraph of his post...

(And no, I don't think either UML or MDA is very well suited to using for Web services, either. Class diagrams are just not the right metaphor, since Web services are not object-oriented, and the interaction diagrams aren't rich enough. Never mind the fact it doesn't make sense to use diagrams to create software in the first place 😉

Now, if only some people, especially in the Grid community, could understand that Web Services ARE NOT distributed objects.

2 responses to “Eric Newcomer on UML and MDA”

  1. Mark Little
    Web Services != Distributed Objects, but that doesn’t mean you can’t implement them using distributed objects 😉
  2. Savas Parastatidis
    Absolutely right! I am sorry if I gave that impression. Object-oriented systems are great platforms for imlementing Web Services.