Re: XMI

Think this way.

You want portability. This can be achived if all the information
modeled in UML is stored.

Now we should be able to take this information to soemother tool and it
should be able to draw the same UML diag.

This is possible if the way the information modeled using tool1 is
understood by tool2. right?

Now lets standardized the format of storing information. So that
information generated by any tool using standard UML notations may b
stored using uniform / standard mechasim so that this can be fed to any
other tool, compliant to this spec and get redraw the whole model.

This format of storing is today standardized by OMG called XMI.

That allows all the compliant tools to interoperate with each other.

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