2005-09-22: New UML2.0^TM Composite Structure Diagrams of the data acquisition components and JSyn synthesis networks of DranceWare, with MagicDraw UML^TM. This is port-based system engineering for UML2.0^TM and Java^TM !

2005-06-28: My work on executable UML2.0 components for Java^TM is making progress. I can now even construct and control Java 3D^TM components in a simple universe directly from the MagicDraw UML^TM tool using their excellent Open API ! Stay tuned for example models and code soon.

2005-05-25: My recipe for mapping Java classes to UML2.0 components with ports in MagicDraw UML^TM using "logical" components wrapping reverse-engineered classes with "on-the-fly" ports is explained via a minimal example as UML images at:

• webel.com.au_on-the-fly_interface_and_port_system_for_java_classes.jpg
• webel.com.au_on-the-fly_interface_and_port_system_for_java_components.jpg

The corresponding Java source is also available.

UML2.0^TM is the current official version of the Unified Modelling Language (UML)^TM. This zone is dedicated to analysis of the specifications, port-based systems engineering using UML2.0^TM components, and bridging the gap between Java^TM and UML2.0^TM.

I have more than a passing interest in port-based systems engineering. I was introduced to it by old-time radiophysicists at Sydney Uni and again by engineers at the DESY particle accelerator institute, and I use the paradigm for modelling my gestural synthesis system Drancing. I have used active modelling systems like MATLAB^(R), Agilent VEE (on functioning particle accelerators), and the Houdini animation tool, all of which employ a channel-operator paradigm for reusable components with ports. I'm not the bees knees at it - indeed if anything my lack of formal training in systems engineering was a burden to me in times past - however, perhaps exactly for that reason I have applied myself to finding out more about it.

I seek examples of UML2.0^TM models that employ port-based systems engineering in Composite Structure Diagrams and correspond without error to functioning, implemented, Java^TM software systems that run (where possible with open source). Please email links of examples of consistent model-driven development of port-based Java systems with UML2.0 !

I will be providing running examples of model-driven development with UML2.0^TM and Java^TM here drawn from my Drancing gestural music and control system, and my model of the MOST radiotelescope signal processing system.

Please also enjoy some of the examples of my past work on UML2.0^TM and Java^TM here, and some stuff on MagicDraw UML^TM's increasing support for UML2.0^TM.