UML as an EDI system?

[AgathaChristies]

Hi,

Would it be possible to use UML as an EDI system?Once we have input
the data and built all the achitecture of the system could we then
implemant a system of exchange of data? Would it still confidential
(just between the two concerned persons)?How does it work?

I know large question but i am looking for the simplest way to
implement an EDI system in my company: confidential, cheap and
universal (that our partners can adopt it without difficulties)

Thanks!

Agatha

[H. S. Lahman]

Responding to AgathaChristies...

> Would it be possible to use UML as an EDI system?Once we have input
> the data and built all the achitecture of the system could we then
> implemant a system of exchange of data? Would it still confidential
> (just between the two concerned persons)?How does it work?
>

The short answer to the first question is Yes. However, I suspect the
way it "works" may not be what you are looking for.

UML is just a modeling notation. Its original and still primary usage is
the record OOA/D software designs. So you when you design your EDI work
flows, processing, and whatnot using some design methodology, you could
then record that design in UML. However, UML itself is not a solution
and using UML does not solve problems. You would still have to actually
implement that design in software. IOW, the answers to your other
questions are about the design of the software itself, which will be
entirely up to you. Whatever way you resolve the requirements implied in
your questions can then be described with UML.

--
Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence
-- Schopenhauer

H. S. Lahman
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software blog: http://pathfinderpeople.blogs.com/hslahman/index.html

[Hong Lee Yu]

The primary design artifacts for EDI are the messages and services. Many commercial uml tools have extensions to model services and messages. Typically they also provide roundtrip engineering to implementation artifacts from uml models -XML schema and wsdl.

Further, you can document how those services and messages used through referenced processes using activity diagrams.

Hong-Lee

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On Jul 6, 2010, at 5:12 AM, AgathaChristies <ap...@christies.com> wrote:

Hi,

Would it be possible to use UML as an EDI system?Once we have input
the data and built all the achitecture of the system could we then
implemant a system of exchange of data? Would it still confidential
(just between the two concerned persons)?How does it work?

I know large question but i am looking for the simplest way to

implement an EDI system in my company: confidential, cheap and
universal (that our partners can adopt it without difficulties)

Thanks!

Agatha

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[Ken Lloyd]

Agatha and Hong-Lee

In the same way that the InfrastructureLibrary (model) may be used to
generate the UML through MOF, UML may model an EDI system (or web/network
services, even the SOA), but is not, itself, an EDI system (even compared
with XMI and the contents modeled by XMI - as close as one can get to an
"EDI" system). Futhermore, even executable UML is one execution of an
instance of a UML model.

It is a common misconception to confuse the model with system being modeled
(this happens at several levels of abstraction), often referred to as
confusing the map with the terrain.

Hope that made sense.

Ken