UML22 — Section: 7.3.36

Problem 6. 6.1 Operation is having very wide type (Type) as an exception instance (raisedException). Theoretically it is possible that Association may be thrown as an exception. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ from Bran Selic <bran.selic@gmail.com> hide details Jun 9 to Andrzej Zielinski <072404@gmail.com> date Jun 9, 2008 7:46 PM subject Re: UML 2.x issues mailed-by gmail.com Bran Selic: Agreed. I wish that this was the only place where the metamodel suffers from overgeneralization. Unfortunately, this is almost endemic in how things are done in UML.

If we were to constrain the type of exceptions, we might invalidate user models. There seems no reason to make a
change here.
Disposition: Closed - No Change