UML Partners was a consortium of system integrators and vendors convened in 1996 to specify the

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally m ...

(UML). Initially the consortium was led by

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Ivar Jacobson Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) is a Swedish computer scientist and software engineer, known as major contributor to UML, Objectory, Rational Unified Process (RUP), aspect-oriented software development and Essence. Biography Ivar Jacobson w ...

, and

James Rumbaugh James E. Rumbaugh (born August 22, 1947) is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologistObject Management Group The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies. Business activities The goal of the OMG was a common portable and interoperab ...

(OMG) in January 1997. During the same month the UML Partners formed a Semantics Task Force, chaired by

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, to finalize the semantics of the specification and integrate it with other standardization efforts. The result of this work, UML 1.1, was submitted to the OMG in August 1997 and adopted by the OMG in November 1997.

Member list

Members of the consortium include: *

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* Hewlett-Packard *

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* IBM * ICON Computing * IntelliCorp * MCI Systemhouse *

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* Oracle Corporation * Platinum Technology * Ptech *

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* Reich Technologies * Softeam * Taskon *

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References

External links

2001: A Standardization Odyssey
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Member list

See also

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