How to map component I/Fs to sub-component I/Fs?

[jschaefer]

Hi,

while trying out the software I'm having difficulties to associate the interface (required interface) of a child-component with the parent component (which is a composite of several child-components).

What I'd like to do is, that the parent component shows all the (unconnected) required interfaces of its child components, so that I can show the outer connection to other higher level components in a high-level diagram.
The remaning missing link now is the association (assembly?) between those parent component interfaces and the child component interfaces (i.e. the high-to-low interface mapping).

Is there any way to do this?

Thank you very much.

[thomaskilian]

There are quite some threads dealing with this interface connector thingy. Try a search first.

[potterm]

Scott Ambler covers this to some extent in his book (relevant extract available at: http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/componentDiagram.htm).  See Figure 4 on that page....

Cheers,
Martin.

[jschaefer]

Hello,

thank you very much for the answers. The Figure in the agile modelling book is exactly what I'm trying to do.

Apparently, EA does not provide that kind of link inside structured activities (i.e. between the activity and its children). In other cases it works fine.

Thanks again,
Cheers,
Jörg