[cap-talk] Real world distributed capabilities

[John Carlson]

>
> Also, has anyone done any practical work on visualizing capability  
> graphs?
> I've been diagramming the objects representing the different types  
> of users
> we have and what they are allowed to do, and the objects that they can
> manipulate.  I noticed I needed to distinguish between object  
> creation and
> holding and passing of references.  Once I had about 20 objects in  
> there it
> wasn't quite as cute as, say, the Granovetter Diagram, although it  
> wouldn't
> be so bad if I broke it into subgraphs with just one page or graph  
> per class.

If you're on WIndows, you may want to look at GME, a generic modelling
environment from Vanderbilt.  You can come up with just about any  
software diagram you
want, using metamodels.

Personally, I'd want something in Java.

John