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UML2 Project Sprint  |  Kenn Hussey  |  © 2005 by IBM; made available under the EPL v1.0
Challenges
§Since the specification isn’t finalized, the API is a moving target
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§Aspects of the standard metamodel (redefinition, subsets/supersets) make the mapping to Java and XMI difficult
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§There are a number of errors in the specification which, until fixed, make the API and XMI schema difficult to use
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§Compliance points for UML™ 2.0 are a subject of much debate within the modeling community