Blog by Rob Vens

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This question was asked on Stackoverflow and ModelingLanguages and prompted me to attempt to make some persistent preconceptions about UML clearer. First of all: UML is not about modelling object-oriented software.

Origin of object-orientation

But maybe we should go back to what object-orientation is....

(Americans often refer to a method with the term "methodology", which is not entirely correct semantically, as it would mean "the science of methods")

Examples of methods are ORM, RUP, and one could argue Scrum or agile approaches like DAD.

Inspired by the book by Ian Graham et.al....

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

Recent responses to my article on Mirrors prompted me to attempt to clarify the approach in that article. I think there is a fundamental philosophical discovery to be made in what I try to say, and indeed some of those res...

Do away with architectural models. What we need to see is the essence of architecture, which is something we realise in software: a mirror of the enterprise.

The idea is not new. It has always been surprising (and, to be honest, somewhat frustrating) that is hasn't been picked up as I thought it woul...