Welcome
The SysML Forum is a web community dedicated
to the Systems Modeling Language (SysML),
a new
visual modeling language standard for specifying systems and
systems-of-systems. Here you can find information related to SysML
modeling tools,
specifications,
tutorials,
mailing lists, and blogs.
SysML customizes the UML™,
the industry standard for modeling
software-intensive systems, for
systems engineering applications.
It supports the specification,
analysis, design, verification and validation of
a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems.
These systems may include hardware, software,
information, processes, personnel, and facilities.
The
SysML Partners completed their SysML v. 1.0a
open source specification draft and
submitted it to the Object Management Group
(OMG) in November 2005. A
series of competing specification proposals
was followed by a "SysML Merge Team"
proposal submission to the OMG in April
2006, which was adopted by the OMG as OMG SysML™
in July 2006.
The most
current version of the SysML open source specification is available
for download by clicking here.
See for
yourself why this new domain specific language
is smaller and better suited for systems
engineering applications than the
Unified
Modeling Language™ (UML™)
on which it is based. (SysML is currently
specified as a UML 2.0 Profile, or
customization.)
You are encouraged to explore the
following major areas of our web:
If you want to
have your SysML modeling tool, training service,
book, paper or blog included in our web, please
submit it to the SysML Forum for review by
clicking here. For more information about the
SysML please read
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News
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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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