Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

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"Microsoft said that modeling tools like Whitehorse make it more likely that the programs built by developers will match the requirements of business users"

There are a plethora of modeling tools already in existence, none has swept the planet with their ease-of-use and ability to match requirements to final product. Maybe MS has a better tool, maybe not. It seems to me that Whitehores is a developer tool; what is need are analyst tools for modeling and describing systems.

What does Whitehorse do that UML-based tools such as Posiden don't aleady do? And Posiden community edition (full featured, not-for-profit use) is free.

"A major objective discussed on the XM site is eliminating the huge time distance between modeling and testing. This, Gentleware plans to do by animating UML - that is by making models "executable." To this end, Gentleware first researched Petri Nets. Petri Nets, named after Dr. Carl Adam Petri, of the University of Hamburg, are a powerful directed graph analysis and visualization method. The XM site has a white paper (post script) that described the potential use of Petri Nets with UML."

Here's some links:

http://www.gentleware.com/products/index.php3
http://www.javaskyline.com/20010831.html
http://www.javaskyline.com/features/poseidon/20010828_poseidon.html

Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 02/23/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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