Design Patterns discussion

[Christian Köppe <christian.koppe AT hu.nl>]

Hi everybody,

First I want to thank everyone who made suggestions! I realize that my last 
mail was too short, so I'll short explain what we want to do:

In the course 'Patterns & Frameworks' we introduce design patterns to the 
students (using pedagogical patterns and a small pattern language on teaching 
design patterns I'm currently working on and which I will submit for the next 
EuroPLoP). We also introduce the concept of frameworks incl. the properties 
of a framework. For the documentation part we show the students UML-F 
(published in this book: 
http://www.amazon.com/UML-Profile-Framework-Architectures/dp/0201675188/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295431954&sr=8-1).

Now, as last assignment of this course we want to give the students a small 
framework which they should analyze and document in UML using UML-F (the 
framework-specific parts and all contained design patterns). This way they 
can show that they understood design patterns and the properties of a 
framework. But for this we need a not (well) documented framework, otherwise 
they just look up the documentation and reuse this. So, JUnit and JHotDraw 
are well documented and are therefore not suited for this assignment 
(However, we will use JUnit as example in the course). The JDK is too big to 
let them analyze it.

We also want to reuse this documentation with another class to evaluate if a 
documentation in UML-F helps in understanding a framework better and making 
it easier to use.


I'm currently looking at the Violet UML editor and we might be using the 
framework part of it. But if there are any other suggestions, they are more 
than welcome!

Thanks again!


Cheers from Utrecht,

Christian Köppe
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