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  1. OMG Issue

EAI — Lack of generalization for message content

  • Key: EAI-68
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4948
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Model Driven Solutions ( Mr. Ed Seidewitz)
  • Summary:

    Document: UML Profile and Interchange Models for EAI
    Section: 6.3.4 (EAIMessageContent)

    Description:
    The metamodel has no way to model a generalization/specialization relationship between message content. This is a serious limitation in being able to model general message flows (at least for a number of the things we want to do). Note that the ability to specify generalization/specialization for TDLangElements (which is presumably available, depending on the is not sufficient (and would only seem to be available in language-specific metamodels anyway). The desire is to be able to specify a general message flow that can carry any of a number of potentially differently formatted message contents that all specialize a common message-content specification.

    Recommendation:
    Add to the EAIMessageContent metamodel (Figure 6-9) a generalization/specialization association from EAIMessageContent to itself.

  • Reported: EAI 1.0b1 — Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — EAI 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT