Paramterised classes (templates)

[frankk]

Has anyone used these? I can define the class, but I would like to add a 'bound class', as well. I.e., a class that inherits from the template and binds a specific class to the parameter. In various books (e.g., O'Reilly's UML 2.0 in a Nutshell), this is shown with a <<bind>> stereotype followed by: <T=xyz>, where 'xyz' is a class name.

Is there a way to do this directly in EA?

[Eve]

The stereotype bind is available on depenency connectors.  (Context Menu | Advanced | Dependency Stereotypes).

EA code generation doesn't use it and you're left with setting the name of the dependency to '<T=xyz>'.

[frankk]

Thanks, that's what I expected :-(
By the way, though, the books and websites I've looked at show it as inheritance rather than a dependency. Dependency appears to be the standard.

[Eve]

I haven't look at the spec for this recently but I think that showing bind on a generalization is a shorthand as shown below.

| Child | ------------------ <<bind>> Generalization ------------------> | Parent |

| Child |  --- Generalization ---> | Anonymous Class | - - <<bind>> - - > | Parent |