Collaborations

[bhaskar]

I downloaded a traial version of EA and was very impressed with the features it offered at first sight. But I was later surprised that Collaboration diagrams are not supported! Although sequece diagrams and collaboration diagrams are symantically similar, there are few subtle differences. for example in collaboration diagrams you can specify an association role that should be used in the interaction but not is sequence diagrams.

Do you have a plan to support this?

[gsparks]

Hi,

Collaboration diagrams are supported - you just use an Analysis type diagram to draw the Collaborations in. This has proven a little confusing and we intend in the next major release to add Collaboration diagrams as a listed menu option - the behaviour and semantics will essentially be the same as now, but the diagram type will be more explicit.

Geoff Sparks

[Mark]

Hi,

I'm pleased to hear that collaboration diagrams will be included in the menus. Is there any way to automatically convert a sequence diagram to a collaboration diagram and vice versa?

Cheers,
Mark

[MattD]

I agree, a method of generating a collaboration diagram from a sequence diagram, similar to 'Rose (F5 button) would be superb.

[bhaskar]

Thanks Geoff.

I too agree that it would be nice to be able to convert between sequence and collaboration diagrams.

Another point that I would like to see is that collaboration diagram should support a different kind of LINK i.e., AssociationRole(which is based on one of the associations of corresponding classifiers) rather than normal Association used to relate classifiers.