On Expressing Business Rules with a Combination of Uml and Ocl
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Today’s volatile, competitive business environment demands flexible software systems that could fit changing business requirements. Therefore business rules are of great importance in the development of software systems. The Object Constraint Language (OCL) as part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) provides the possibility to express business rules in a conceptual model unambiguously. In this paper we analyze possibilities to express different kinds of business rules with UML/OCL. We show how UML/OCL can be used in business application constraint modelling and discuss their advantages and limitations.
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