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MOF Support for Semantic Structures — Open Issues

  • Acronym: SMOF
  • Issues Count: 2
  • Description: Issues not resolved
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Multiple ownership not in UML semantic subset

  • Key: SMOF_-2
  • Legacy Issue Number: 17450
  • Status: open  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Section 10.1.1 (InstanceSpecification) has an operation getContainers with a postcondition returning potentially multiple instances linked at the owning end of composite associations. This is disallowed under UML semantics, making SMOF not a subset of UML semantically. Since SMOF is mainly concerned with multiple and dynamic classification, which does not affect issues of conflicting ownership (any more than multiple composite properties on a classifier do under the current MOF), it is not necessary for SMOF to address issues of ownership.

  • Reported: SMOF 1.0b2 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:56 GMT

SMOF does not implement dynamic classification of associations

  • Key: SMOF_-1
  • Legacy Issue Number: 16233
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Model Driven Solutions ( Mr. Steve Cook)
  • Summary:

    SMOF restricts itself to dynamically classifying elements, and requires links to have a single static Association. The problem with that will show up as soon as we want to use SMOF for profiles. We might, for example, have metaclasses C1 and C2 connected by an association A. Apply the profile and it automatically infers that C1 needs also to be classified by P1 and C2 by P2 – and A by B. But SMOF doesn’t allow the “A by B” part.

  • Reported: SMOF 1.0b1 — Thu, 12 May 2011 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:56 GMT