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the webUML initiative

It's two in the afternoon and you're working on a UML diagram for your latest project. Suddenly you feel something isn't quite right and you want a second opinion. Let's send it to a friend for review. Four eyes is always better than two. So, you select all elements on the diagram in your CASE tool, press the magic copy & paste keystrokes and a picture of your diagram is shining brightly in your email client. Add some text, et voila, in mere seconds your friend can see your diagram in his own mail client. Everybody is happy ... Right?

Your friend wants to help you out, but all he has is this email with a picture in it. So he has little to no other option than to draw the diagram himself, in his own CASE tool, adapt it and again copy & paste it into a reply to you. And then you also again have to manually apply all modifications your friend made to your diagram.

But wait, this is foolish. We have XMI, a standard way of exchanging UML in XML format. Let's just export our model, send it attached to an email to our friend, have him import it in his tool, ... only to see that it is no longer formatted, it doesn't even contain any diagrams anymore, because XMI simply doesn't do diagrams.

Sounds familiar? Then you might be interested in this initiative: read our Call for Action and Sign up as a supporter.