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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: CJ on November 08, 2002, 06:00:54 am

Title: UML Question: documenting constants
Post by: CJ on November 08, 2002, 06:00:54 am

G'day folks,

In UML, would the best way to document/model constants be to group them into classes stereotyped as <enumeration>?

Title: Re: UML Question: documenting constants
Post by: jaimeglz on November 08, 2002, 04:58:33 pm

Hi again, Jason.

Best anwer I can think of is "yes, but be careful". Ennumerations are great for such sets as days_of_the_week = {Mon,Tue,Wed...} . There are other constants that I would consider as attributes (which would be object instances when they are play the role of messages) of ordinary classes. This, for instance, is a "not so k constant":

value_added_tax_rate:accounting_params

Hope it helps.

Jaime