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UMLR — Clarification re MOF Equivalent Semantics about defining/applying a stereotype to a slot of ininstance of a stereotype

  • Key: UMLR-469
  • Legacy Issue Number: 18245
  • Status: open  
  • Source: NASA ( Dr. Nicolas F. Rouquette)
  • Summary:

    The UML 2.5 beta document explains the mapping of Profiles, Stereotypes,
    and Extensions in terms of the CMOF-equivelent semantics as follows:

    • A Profile maps to a CMOF Package
      Š
    • A Stereotype maps to a CMOF class with the same name and properties
      Š
    • An instance of a Stereotype (created when the Stereotype is applied to
      an Element) maps to an instance of the CMOF class representing the
      Stereotype.
      It is associated with the Element to which it applies using a Link which
      is an instance of the Association to which the Extension is mapped.

    According to the above, this means that

    1) when defining the stereotype Clock (Fig 12.22), the property
    Clock::OSVersion maps to a property of the CMOF class named Clock
    2) when applying the stereotype Clock (Fig 12.26 and 12.27) to an element
    (StopWatch on Fig 12.22), the underlying semantics has an instance of the
    CMOF class Clock with a slot corresponding to the property
    Clock::OSVersion (Fig 12.27)

    It should be possible to define a stereotype extending UML::Slot and apply
    such stereotype to a slot corresponding to a property of an instance of a
    stereotype, e.g., the slot OSVersion="3.32" of Fig 12.27.

    This is a subtle point about the current profile mechanism that should be
    made clear in the spec.
    I suggest adding an explanation about this in the "MOF Equivalent
    Semantics" sub-section of section 12.3.3 Profile Semantics.

  • Reported: UML 2.5b1 — Sat, 3 Nov 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT