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UML241 — UML2 Superstructure - profiles

  • Key: UML241-38
  • Legacy Issue Number: 7780
  • Status: open  
  • Source: The MathWorks ( Mr. Alan Moore)
  • Summary:

    From the current spec I really can't work out what to implement. For what
    it's worth, this is what I think should be there:
    Properties can be typed either by MOF primitive types (the ones used in the
    UML metamodel, such as string, boolean and enumeration and subtypes), or by
    UML metaclasses. This is not only consistent wth UML 1.x, it also is likely
    to be the most easily implemented - vendors already need to provide a UI for
    editing boolean properties etc. and editing properties typed by metaclasses
    is easy - just use a list control to reference existing model elements.
    The spec seems to state that properties can typed by arbitrary model
    elements.("However, it is possible to have
    associations between ordinary classes, and from stereotypes to ordinary
    classes")
    How is a tool supposed to know what to do with it - it looks like the
    current spec allows a stereotype property to be typed by something like an
    Actor, not the actor metaclass, but some specific actor - what use is that?
    The more I read about this the more I'm convinced that we will never get
    interoperability, unless we tighten the rules as I suggested above.

  • Reported: UML 1.4.2 — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 14:12 GMT