2. Core Modelling Issues

3_Modelling recommendations.docx

UML to be decided - Ottawa -2

Modelling recommendations.docx

According to the NIST validator at http://validator.omg.org/.

Annotations are impacted by the idea that identifiers are reduced to properties. There are also issues from the prototype review around Citation Information. These are related and the issue needs to be framed for further discussion within MRT.

DDI 4

• Modeling Guidelines for Business Modelers

UML Specification

• Overview: UML Diagram Website (Kirill Fakhroutdinov)
• OMG Unified Modeling Language (UML) Version 2.5.1, combined documentation (is the same for the used UML subset and for the selected version 2.4.1)

UML Best Practices

• Scott Ambler
  • UML 2 Class Diagramming Guidelines, short version of the chapter "UML Class Diagrams" in the book "The Elements of UML 2.0 Style"
  • UML 2 Class Diagrams: An Agile Introduction
  • Introduction to Class Normalization

• ISO/TC211 Wiki on best practices for modelling geographic information in UML (Knut Jetlund)

UML Associations

• Association details in diagrams (Berhard Rumpe, in German)
• UML Composition vs Aggregation vs Association (Geert Bellekens)
• UML Best Practice: Attribute or Association (Geert Bellekens)
• Aggregation and Composition (Martin Fowler)

UML Composition and Inheritance

• Composition vs. Inheritance: How to Choose? (Steven Lowe)
• Inheritance versus composition: Which one should you choose? (Bill Venners)

Object-Oriented Design

• SOLID principles of object-oriented programming (Wikipedia)
• Principles of object-oriented design (Robert C. Martin)

Cohesion and Coupling

• Cohesion and Coupling: Two OO Design Principles
• Object coupling and cohesion