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Re: (data) medium is the message

• To: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@s...>
• Subject: Re: (data) medium is the message
• From: Mitch Amiano <mamiano@n...>
• Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 15:35:17 -0400
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Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> Mitch Amiano <mamiano@n...> writes:
<snip/>
>>the *intent* is divergent. Well, the intent is mostly 
>>informal, unspecified, and floating free. 
<snip/>


> I believe it is mostly possible to automatically reverse engineer a given
> language (say Java or C++) into a UML representation?  At that point you've
> got abstractions which it seems are pretty much well defined and self
> contained?  You're right that you can't then map this to any arbitrary

I've seen engineering teams waste years trying to get reverse engineering right.

> pre-existing schema, but I don't see what is stopping you from generating a
> new relational schema that can store all the given objects and their
> attributes? Certainly Java CMP is one example of this (albeit perhaps an
> ugly one). Maybe this gets back to the normalization issue: the result may
> not fit with what a best practices relational model would look like, but it
> should still work?

Whether it will work for a given situation is beyond this discussion, but
we do seem to be moving more and more toward technologies that allow 
one-off deployment. 


> <snip/>
> 

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