'Link' Connector type - did I imagine it ?

[Ian Mitchell]

I'm (fairly) sure that there used to be a Connector Type of 'link', which UML says (or at least, used to say) we're supposed to use to connect Instances with each other.
The element/element relationship connector type defines what the instance/instance connection means, but I thought that the instance/instance connector itself was just a 'link'.
Did I imagine this?
It seems that in V14 (and I think 13 as well) I seem to have to lost the ability to create a simple link.
@Sparx - was this deliberate? Maybe a new corner of UML which I missed? Or maybe it got lost?
And, if I just add 'link' to t_conectorTypes, is that allowed? Feels like a big step, inventing new Connector Types, which might have bad consequences.

[Uffe]

Hi Ian,

There are Links, and you can connect two Objects with one, in 13.5.

/Uffe

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Ian,

IIRC, Links are instances of Associations.  As you say, they are used to link a specific instance (of a classifier) to another specific instance (of another, possibly the same, classifier).

I guess you could also use stereotyped versions to handle aggregation and composition links.

Paolo

[KP]

I think it's always been the case that a Link is represented internally in EA as Connector_Type='Association'. If the two ends are instances then by duck typing it's an Association instance (aka Link).

[Ian Mitchell]

Thanks @KP  - good to know how to (probably) make things backwards compatible. Could we have a note somewhere in the final V14 documentation to say that this has changed?

[KP]

Thanks @KP  - good to know how to (probably) make things backwards compatible. Could we have a note somewhere in the final V14 documentation to say that this has changed?

Nothing has changed. Except possibly the labels in the quicklinker (used to say "Link" or "Directed Link", now says "Association", but they're all Associations).