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IIOSS is a software development environment that offers a tool whose multiple facets include a UML editor, a model simulator, an interface builder, a file converter and an object-oriented database. IIOSS can be used to design, to model, to prototype and to develop an object- oriented software. IIOSS is the acronym for "Integrated Inter-exchangeable Object-modeling and Simulation System for Opensource software environment". The following list characterizes what IIOSS is about:
IIOSS' 6 subsystems
Currently, the IIOSS project has six(6) subsystems which are under development. They are briefly explained in the following links:
A visual UML modeling tool which is based on Argo/UML with many new functions added. The current version supports Class, Use Case, Collaboration, Sequence, State-chart and Activity Diagrams based on UML 1.1. It also supports Diagram Navigation and Static Analysis.
MDF enables you to simulate a UML model you have created using MEF. This simulation can help you verify whether your model exhibits behaviors as you wanted to design with MEF. Thanks to MDF, you don't have to encode your UML model before you find out whether or not it is designed as you intended it to be. Our first release contains sequential simulation facilities.
IBF builds three interfaces. They are for GUI, Database and Networking, respectively. IBF has been developed primarily based on Korfe. The types of builders that IBF provides are Swing GUI, RDBMS interface for PostgreSQL or ORACLE, OODB interface for IIOSS DBF, Java RMI interface and Java IDL interface.
FCF enables format conversion between model objects and implementation objects. The current version supports both XMI to Java and Java to XMI conversions.
DBF is an object database management system. It supports Java and is in compliance with the ODMG standards. DBF's Object Oriented Database engine is based on sO and has been extended to handle XML-based data.
You can invoke each of IIOSS' subsystems(facilities) from IDE. It also can manage projects you create in IIOSS.
IIOSS supports JDK 1.2.2 and JDK 1.3.x.
We have tested IIOSS on JDK 1.2.2. We have tested IIOSS to some
extent but not much.
We have tested following platforms on JDK1.2.2_007:
With JDK 1.3.x, the following problems have been noted.
Please read how to install IIOSS
In the directory that IIOSS is installed, you will find the bin/
directory which contains shell-script files that you can use to
invoke IIOSS facilities.
For example, if you want to invoke MEF, execute the following command.
% /path/to/IIOSS/bin/invokeMEF
In the folder that IIOSS is installed, you will find the bin folder
which contains batch files that you can use to invoke IIOSS facilities.
For example, if you want to invoke MEF, double-click icon of invokeMEF.
IIOSS official home page is http://www.iioss.org/
Please do not hesitate to write to us at: info@iioss.org
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 The IIOSS Consortium.
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency(IPA), Japan.
All Rights Reserved.
This project was sponsored by The Information-Technology Promotion Agency
(IPA), Japan.
Java is registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Windows is registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.