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  1. OMG Issue

UML25 — Generalization Relationship to itself?

  • Key: UML25-261
  • Legacy Issue Number: 17813
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Change Vision ( Michael Chonoles)
  • Summary:

    Generalization Relationship:
    A subclass of the owning package,
    or a superclass of the owning package or
    Does the owning package have a generalization relationship to itself?

  • Reported: UML 2.4.1 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — UML 2.5
  • Disposition Summary:

    The location referenced in the issue is to the list of literals for VisibilityKind. However, it is not clear what the issue
    is really asking. The only use of the term “generalization relationship” is in the definition of “protected” visibility,
    which says “A NamedElement with protected visibility is visible to Elements that have a generalization relationship
    to the Namespace that owns it.” This means that the Namespace owning the element must be the general Element in
    the generalization relationship (generalization is “to” the general element). However, Generalization is only defined
    for Classifiers, not Packages, so there is no “owning package” here.
    Disposition: Closed - No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:59 GMT