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CBDi Forum Journal - February 1998 UML Extensions The benefits of a standard modelling notation are obvious, for example, common communications and reduction in training costs. A key goal of the Object Managment Group (OMG) was to enable tool interoperability, and with many tool vendors quickly supporting the Unified Modelling Language (UML) standard, one would expect interoperability to be straightforward. However, whilst UML contains a set of core concepts that have been accepted by the OMG as the standard, it also contains an extension mechanism by which additional concepts can be added. Whilst this is both useful and necessary, it may also give rise to some confusion. It is sensible to h |