An Introduction to BON – Business Object Notation (1999)

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Looks just like UML to me.

All those "round trip" model to code, code to model promises were a bust. And this article from the late 90s--talk about stale ideas.

Contracts and assertions are definitely not "just like UML".

Those have been in UML for years. (Google it.) Actually, that's the problem: everything is in UML. I am sure someone pointed out that "X" had it but UML didn't, so they made sure to add it.

BTW, a 20 year old link is not going to present anyone with up to date tech info. You have to make allowances for the progress of rival technology.

I see how this is simpler than UML, and ostensibly how it's useful for planning systems. With a bit of cleverness, it could also be generated from pre-existing code in certain languages.

Why have I not heard of this before?

It also touts the ability to facilitate going backwards from code to model, not just model to code. But I haven't ever read anything about how well it works in practice.

There is also a book, "Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture", that introduced the method and is supposed to be quite good.

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