3SL Web-based newsletter for August 2005 [Cradle 5.2]

Software Architecture Diagrams

Cradle-5.2 introduces support for Software Architecture Diagrams (SADs) as a new diagram type that is supported in the Implementation domain. Cradle’s SADs are based on the ADARTS notation and methodology and provide a means to depict the runtime architecture of a software system:

Processes and tasks
Entries within them
Classes and objects
Routines within them
Data links
Events
Messages
Message queues, both FIFO and prioritised FIFO

Corresponding new symbol categories have been introduced for data definitions:

Data Messages

and specifications:

Processes
Tasks

so that the definitions of SAD elements can be found easily by queries.

SADs are supported throughout the Toolset, WorkBench and Web Access. They can be imported, exported, created, edited, deleted, copied, published, queried, browsed and printed in the same manner as diagrams of any other type.

The Team work -to-Cradle converter has been extended to allow it to recognise such diagrams in CDIF and EDIF/CASE files and convert them to Cradle SAD diagrams.

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