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This paper describes our SoftDock system, which is a distributed model management system to support collaborative software development. SoftDock leverages the team development, tool interoperability, and model continuity across development lifecycle. It supports Unified Modeling Language (UML) to specify software models, and maintains the model information with UML eXchange Format (UXF), which is a XML-based model interchange format. UXF-encoded model descriptions are shared and managed through the Document Object Model (DOM) interface implemented on top of CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) middleware. This paper describes the SoftDock architecture, system organization, and design considerations in managing UXF descriptions in the distributed environment.Keywards: Distributed software development, Model-based software development, Model interchange, Model engineering, UML, XML, DOM, CORBA