Article:		UML for Web Services
Subject:		Author's response
Date:		2003-08-19 08:19:13
From:		Will Provost
Response to: what maps the diagrams into code ?
Unfortunately, at this stage of the game, I don't know of any UML tools that will do code generation at this level. I think some are working well with WXS schema generation at this point, and perhaps there's very simple WSDL generation, but tying the consolidated notation into UML tool, application server, IDE, etc., is not possible yet. For what it's worth, in my own practice I tend to rely on UML as a whiteboard language only. I've never found code generation to be very effective; it almost always breaks on reverse-engineering and thus tends to gum up the development process after an initial burst of code productivity.

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