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XMI12 — Example 4 in A.5 is obscure (minor)

  • Key: XMI12-32
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4603
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Several points, the first 3 of which seem to concern the implicit use of a
    UML Profile which is not documented, and is not the UML Profile for CORBA
    (ad/00-05-07) which one might expect to be used for this:
    a) The diagram shows class Address with a stereotype of <<struct>> which is
    presumably part of a stereotype uses a UML Profile which is not indicated or
    documented in the CCM Spec referred to.
    b) Para 2 states that "The Base IDL metamodel should subclass MOF:DataType."
    which is not clear (a metamodel cannot be a subclass of a MOF Class). Later
    on the statement is made that "Since Address is a definition of a struct, it
    is an instance of the IDL metaclass StructDef" without any reasoning. This
    would require a mapping between the stereotype in the UML Profile and an IDL
    MOF model.
    c) It's not clear how the example model would be created: UML requires the
    'type' reference of an Attribute to refer to an instance of UML::Classifier.
    Does BaseIDL.StructDef inherit from UML::Classifier? With the use of a
    profile/stereotype one would end up with an instance of Class with an
    attached stereotype of <<struct>>. There's a lot that's not made clear.
    d) It would be far more useful to show a UML diagram for StructDef, or even
    a fragment of MOF XMI, than a block of DTD which is not adequate as a
    metamodel definition - especially in a specification that is supposed to
    be describing how to create DTDs from a metamodel.

  • Reported: XMI 1.1 — Mon, 8 Oct 2001 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:12 GMT