assemblies modeling

[mariano774]

Hello,

Im having some doubts when modeling assemblies with UML, should they be components or packages ?
I started modeling them as components exposing interfaces, but when I got to the code part, i wondered, what exactly is an interface and how replaceable is the dll ?
If I think about it, a more natural approach is to model the dll as a package, since when I use it on another program, I do a dim var as new dll.class, so I'm using the classes contained in the dll, I'm not using the interfaces as showed in component diagrams

Anyone thought about this b4 ?

Thanks in advance,
Mar

[sargasso]

There is another thread somewhere in here - possibly in Suggestions - along these lines.  IIRC we came to the conclusion that components and assemblies seem to be a fairly abstract level modelling thingo.

IOW they are suited to the architecture modelling, or Paolo's conceptual layers more than physical code design.

hth
bruce

[mikewhit]

Round here (Southampton UK) IOW = Isle of Wight !!