The Past, the Problems, and the Prospects
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i Unified modeling language (UML) is a modeling language sponsored by a prominent consortium of companies, the object management group (OMG), for object-oriented (OO) systems development (Kobryn, 1999, 2004). It is widely acknowledged that UML has become the de facto standard for modeling object-oriented software development (Pender, 2003). It is used in specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software-intensive systems (OMG, 2005). Although UML is popularly used in object-oriented software development, it is designed to be a general-purpose language with a rich set of diagrammatic notations that can model any type of software application. In a project lifecycle, it can be used for requirement determination , analysis, and design, and can serve as a basis for coding (Bell, 2004; George, Batra, Valacich, & Hoffer, 2007). It is supported by powerful tools such as the ones based on the rational unified process (RUP). The adoption rate of UML and its related tools has even exceeded OMG's most optimistic predictions (Selic, Ramackers, & Kobryn, 2002). It appears UML is here to stay. There are a number of interesting research areas on UML topics, such as usability concerns The articles in this and forthcoming special issues on UML topics attempt to address some of these research areas. This is the first of two special issues that are being published in the Journal of Database Management, which has been one of the key journals that have covered a variety of UML topics in recent years. The first article in the issue, " Dimensions of UML Diagram Use: A Survey of Practitioners, " by Brian Dobing and Jeffrey Parsons, employs the survey research strategy to investigate how UML is used in practice. The authors report that there is considerable variety in the ways the
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