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UML241 — Issue in UML 2 Interaction package

  • Key: UML241-30
  • Legacy Issue Number: 7443
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Independent ( Marc-Philippe Huget)
  • Summary:

    In the UML 2 Interaction package specification (UML
    2 spec, dated 2003/04/10): p. 381, it is written that
    "InteractionFragment is an abstract notion of the most general
    interaction unit. An interaction fragment is a piece of an interaction.
    Each interaction fragment is conceptually like an interaction by itself".

    InteractionFragment is described as an abstract notion and Interaction
    is defined as a specialization of InteractionFragment. Don't we define
    normally in the other way around: the InteractionFragment is the
    abstract notion and is called Interaction and the interaction is called
    InteractionFragment? We can have the definition for Interaction
    (previously called InteractionFragment): "Interaction is an abstract
    notion of the most general interaction unit. An Interaction is composed
    of at least an InteractionFragment".

    Usual semantics for fragments refers to something within something else
    but here, the something else is undefined.

  • Reported: RAS 2.0b1 — Wed, 9 Jun 2004 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:12 GMT