COBOL to Gen to UML Capabilities
Following on from the 3rd Gathering’s dicussion on UML to Gen mapping, here’s a more comprehensive list of the comparisons between the UML concepts and Gen’s concepts.
Looking further, not only is there a list of comparisons, but it must be remembered that these are actively in development by the Arikan Productivity Group (APG) as part of the ModelCVS toolset
datX and Legacy Renewal are the first two components of the ModelCVS toolkit which are already commercially available.The Metamodeling Toolkit will be next, followed by the Java generation component and UML2 diagrams for Gen, as indicated in the link above.
It seems that there is a tide of opinion that UML is becoming increasingly required in systems development, therefore, we need some way of getting UML diagrams and Gen models to interchange information with one another. ModelCVS really does fit the bill. It is a complete toolkit to take the legacy-type systems – COBOL and PL/1 and transfer them to Gen models and provide the supporting UML to describe those systems. Now we know how powerful Gen can be once it has a model in its’ grasp ! Toolkits like this add value to your organisation than you can possibly imagine – the alternative is ditching your old systems and rewriting them from scratch – ModelCVS’s wizard-based approach makes it easy to do…..
ModelCVS is really worth checking out if you have older legacy-type systems that need to be renewed – the target of that renewal will be Gen and then you can take advantage of all that power!
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