business use case model

[raidolinja]

Hallo
I do not find Business Use Case stereotypes in EA, for business use case model. Can you help me.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi,

just type "business use case" into the stereotype field on the Use Case.

Hope this helps,

Bruno

[thomaskilian]

You can also set up appropriate stereotypes using Configuration/UML/Stereotypes. So you have them in the drop down list.

[Kevin Brennan]

Rational uses special symbols for these use cases (I'm pretty sure they're just in RUP and not standard UML). It would be nice to have access to those symbols in EA, although stereotyping it will work as well.

[CJ]

G'day,

In EA's help file index, look for "Business Modeling Stereotypes 1".

Kevin, are these the symbols you're referring to?

[Bruno.Cossi]

Kevin,

when you change the stereotype of a se Case to "business use case", the icon changes to reflect it. I do not have EA nor Rose with me now and do not remember whether it is the same symbol as the one in Rose, but suspect it might :-)

Bruno

Rational uses special symbols for these use cases (I'm pretty sure they're just in RUP and not standard UML). It would be nice to have access to those symbols in EA, although stereotyping it will work as well.

[thomaskilian]

They are. And they are commonly used (in other CASE tools and in many books).

[Kevin Brennan]

Sorry about that.  

I just assumed they weren't there because nobody pointed that out to the original poster, and it seemed to me that that was what he was looking for.

I haven't needed them as of yet so I hadn't looked for them myself.

However, they could be made more obvious in the default set-up.  

[Bruno.Cossi]

They sure could, I am not sure why the "business use case" does not show up in the dropdown listbox, especially since it is obviously supported.

[Bruno.Cossi]

You are right :-)

They are. And they are commonly used (in other CASE tools and in many books).

[thomaskilian]

Hi Bruno,
I'm a bit confused

I am not sure why the "business use case" does not show up in the dropdown listbox

since I have it in my drop down list and it works as expected (with stereotype). So why don't you guys have it in the stereotype definition? Did I place it there a long time ago If so you don't need to place any special EMF, just the wording and the UC shows up correctly. Same with business actor.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi Thomas,

I just created a brand new EAP file and the only stereotype I see in the dropdown list for a Use Case is "metaclass". Yet, when I type "business use case" as the stereotype, EA recognizes it and changes the icon.
In the stereotype definition window, "business use case" is not there either. Funny...

Bruno

[thomaskilian]

Hi Bruno,
I guess "brand new" means you start from one of your templates and not a new installation? Did you try to simply add the "business use case" to the stereotype config? And if so, does it appear in the drop down and show the correct stereotype in the diagram? (Just for curiousity)

[Kevin Brennan]

I get the same result as Bruno does. However, if you add the stereotype as Thomas describes, it does become available to apply to use cases, so you can access these symbols by manually adding the correct stereotype options.

It'd be nice to have a "Business Model" option in the UML toolkit that had all of these stereotypes available by default to drop into a model, although it wouldn't be a top priority for me.

Also, I should add that not all of the listed stereotypes seem to be available. I tried to make a business use-case realization (with and without the hyphen in use case) and did not get a special symbol for it, just the standard stereotyping.

[sargasso]

Can any please explain to me exactly what a "business use case" is anyway.


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