What is/do alias?

[MREA]

Hi everyone, the manpage of EA do not realy solve this questions
What does Alias do? is it only in diagramm? or also in code?

[qwerty]

An alias provides an alternate way to name a class. It depends on the convention how this is used. Some distinguish business/technic while others use it as a 2nd language container. I usually tell customers to not use the alias at all. In the 1st case a glossary is a much better place for ambiguous descriptions. And in the 2nd one EA is not really capable of multi language (esp. the notes exist only once).

I guess the alias is not really used in code gen. Maybe you can use it in the macros to produce some kind of comment. Not sure, though.

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[MREA]

BUt could it be used for
e.g. I've a class class.Now I want that it is written in the diagram like that CLASS.

Does this have bad effect on anything?

[qwerty]

No side effect. Just turn on the option for the diagram to use the alias.

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[MREA]

thanks!