Service Bus

[dobxml]

I would like to represent a service bus where each service is a box that has a line that joins a horizontal line at right angles either above or below the box. The horizontal line is not joined to any box but all of the vertical lines join it. How could I do that?

[qwerty]

I don't know whether the SOA MDG offers a bus symbol, but you can use a boundary (and eventually give it an alternate image). Then use orthogonal connectors (from the line style context menu).

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[KP]

Here's an idea: create a Device element and give it a stereotype of your own invention - I suggest «service bus». Go to Settings > UML Types, find the service bus stereotype and give it a shape script:

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shape main
{
      defsize(400,10);
      setfillcolor(0,0,1);
      rectangle(0,0,100,100);
}

shape label
{
      print("#NAME#");
}Unfortunately, the minimum height of a Device element in EA is 10 pixels - if you want to get around that and have a narrower element you can, but it won't be UML (e.g. you could just use a Fork/Join element from a State Machine diagram, and pretend it's a service bus).