Delegate notation wrong

[qwerty]

UML 2.5 uses a straight line (no arrow, no keyword) for delegation connectors. This has changed since 2.1.1

reported (the first since years; eager to see what happens)

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[Eve]

The specification clearly allows two different notational variants, including the ball and socket version. (See Figure 11.47 as an example)

As a matter of fact, there is no separate delegate connector. Effectively, the EA delegate connector is specifically for that notational variant. If you want the plain, straight line version just use the 'Connector'.

[qwerty]

My copy of formal/2015-03-01 on p. 212 in Fig. 11.47 uses just straight lines.

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[qwerty]

Further I recommend a look into chapter 11.8.12 ConnectorKind which lists assembly/delegation as alternative representation of a connector. EA can't do.

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[Paolo F Cantoni]

Further, I recommend a look into chapter 11.8.12 ConnectorKind which lists assembly/delegation as an alternative representation of a connector. EA can't do.

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Taking a look at formal\17-12-05 in the sections referenced by qwerty seems, to me, to support his case.  Although you have to look carefully at 11.47 to see:

The assembly Connectors use ball-and-socket notation. The delegation connectors use the notational option that the Connector line can end on the ball or socket, rather than the simple port itself.

(My emphasis).  My reading of the specification is that delegation is a simple line.

Paolo

[KP]

Assembly and Delegation are the only two values of ConnectorKind, so if a UML::Connector* is not an assembly, it's a delegation. Use UML::Connector


*always gets confusing that the word "connector" is overloaded. I mean the relationship/link/connector labelled "Connector" in the Composite Relationships toolbox.