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  <Title>Customizable Descriptions of Object-Oriented Models</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> MoDEx is implemented in C++ on both UNIX and PC platforms. It has been integrated with two object-oriented modeling environments, the  1996), and with Ptech, a commercial off-the-shelf object modeling tool. MoDEx has been fielded at a software engineering lab at Raytheon, Inc.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The evaluation of MoDEx is based on anecdotal user feedback obtained during iterative prototyping. This feedback showed us that the preferences regarding the content of a description can vary depending on the organization (or type of user). The control that MoDEx gives over the text macro-structure is one step toward satisfying different types of text requirements. We are currently extending MoDEx in order to give the user a better control over the text micro-structure, by replacing the set of predefined C++ text functions with customizable ASCII specifications. This feature should make MODEx more easely portable among different types of users. In addition, we intend to port MODEX to at least two new OO modeling environments in the near future.</Paragraph>
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