Agregation/composition direction

[kamil.svoboda]

Hi all,
I don't understand why I have to draw agregation between two classes in oposite direction (from target to source)
UML Specification defines that the diamond has to be on the source side (this class containes target class)... But EA draw diamond on the target side of relation...
Thanx
Kamil

[thomaskilian]

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1078757256

[kamil.svoboda]

I understand this explanation, but I thing the EA approach is not good yet.
If you want to draw the relation like that (this is example from UML 2.0 Superstructure, page 86 and widely used approach),

| Class1 | <-----------<> | Class2  |

You have to set relation direction "Destination to source" and then EA generate source code incorrectly:
public class Class1 {
public List class1;
public Class1(){
}
}
public class Class2 {
public List class1;
public Class2(){
}
}

Kamil