Realizing associations

[marcorencelj]

I'm trying to map conceptual classes to implementation classes.
I use "realization" to model how an implementation class implements a conceptual class.
It is also useful to model how a conceptual association is realized by an implementation association. "Realization" doesn't apply here (in EA).

Any suggestion?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

IIRC EA doesn't yet support relationships (edges) between edges.

Depending on how much work you wanted to do, - in the specific case of Associations - you could create AssociationClasses for the association and create the Realization relationship between the AssociationClasses.

HTH,
Paolo

[«Midnight»]

You might be able to do this in a metamodel - I just don't know if the EA implementation is quite there yet. Even if it is, the rendering is likely to fall short of what you'd like.

Perhaps in 7.x.

[marcorencelj]

I'm tring also to use a multilink Association: it works well even if the notation is heavier.

Thank's a lot.