Problems with Statecharts

[johannesjakob]

Hi,
I want to model the behavior of a class. I use state machines to do so. The underlying paradigm is "event-driven-modeling", that means I want to react on "operation calls" (signals) that can be called on the corresponding class.
Now I have at least two problems:

1. In transitions between states in the state machine I only can select (or create) "Trigger-Elements". How can I map operations to such triggers?

2. Sometimes I like to respond in more than one transition to one trigger, but a trigger can only one time. If I choose the same trigger from the trigger list an press the safe button a copy form the selected trigger occurs. Isn't it is a bug?

Thanks for your help!

[jeshaw2]

Can you clarify a bit?  I'm not sure whether your question is about being UML compliant or with the Unique EA Interface.

-Jim

[johannesjakob]

The overall goal is an executable UML2 compliant model using "Class Diagrams", "Composite Structure Diagrams", and "State Chart Diagrams" according to "UML/RT" in "Rose RT".

In EA I like to do something similar. I like to react in state machines to operation-calls because this is the only way I know how transitions can be fired (event-driven paradigm). In my opinion an operation-call is corresponding to an trigger event. And in a state chart I want want to react in serverall transitions to one event.

I hope I could explain the problem

[johannesjakob]

Hi,

the second part of my problem has been accepted as bug by EA and will be fixed in a further release. But the first problem is still there. How can I map operations to triggers?

Greetings,
JJ

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

I know that you can map an operation to an action (callOperation) and an activity to a transition (as an Effect). But in fact I don't know how to help you.