CORBASequence uses multiplicity at the member members to define the sequence upper bound.
The most frequent case of CORBAArray is the single dimensional array.
Proposal: Permit using the members multiplicity for this common case in a similar way as for bounded sequence.
When using this alternative way of modeling:

• The multiplicity lower bound and upper bound shall both be set to the same value - the array size.
• The stereotype tag index shall not be used; in other words, usage of attribute multiplicity shall not be mixed with the index tag.

Modeling of multi dimensional arrays is not in affected by this proposal.

According to the IDL 4.2 grammar, the bound number of bounded sequence / bounded string and fixed array size is a
positive_int_const which resolves to const_expr.
In the examples for bounded sequence an array, the specification only shows literal constants used for the sizes.
It is not defined how to use expressions, such as a reference to an IDL const declaration, as the size.
At the least, it should be required to model a UML Dependency association from the CORBASequence / CORBAArray type to the const declaration.

The specification omits support for the IDL native declaration.

in UML Profile for CORBA, where it describes the UML notation examples for mapping of CORBA sequences/arrays...there is some significant confusion on my part with respect to the notation examples given. See Figure 3-27 for an example. In this figure the class stereotyped as <<CORBAAnonymousSequence>> has a composition association with a class stereotyped as <<CORBAPrimitive>>. The latter class has the following text appearing in the name compartment: "CORBA::short". I am bewildered at how the type can be represented in the name compartment of the class. I am trying to use a tool to auto-generate IDL from UML, and have no way to represent this, and I am unsure if this is even valid as per the UML specification. Is this legal, or is necessary to have an attribute that is of type CORBA::short in the attribute compartment?