Generalization Set in UML 2.0

[mogarick]

Hi,
I was wondering how can I model Generalization Sets in EA.

As you know this refers to the fact that a class could have different types of clasification, for instance, a Person could be Man o Woman, but also could be a Student or Profesor, etc..

UML 2 allows generalization set to group the diferent types of clasification, but a I don't know how I can model this in EA.

Thank you for your help

Greetings

Ricardo Montoya

[KP]

At the moment the best you can do to represent Generalization Sets is to attach a note or constraint to each individual generalization (Modify: that's one note, multiple attachments). Full support is on our to do list.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

If you look in the past topics, you'll find I've also queried the lack of GeneralizationSets and PowerTypes.  My recommendation is to use constraints on the Generalization.  By using a single word or phrase (such as "applicability" or whatever the set name) as the constraint, it violates OCL syntax and thus can be formally detected as a Generalization set in the interim.

When EA finally supports them, you can (or we can) create an automaton (maybe using the new transformation process) to convert all Generalization Constraints of a particular form into GeneralizationSets.

Paolo