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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: sravang on December 11, 2020, 09:23:50 pm

Title: Aggregate Elements and their relations.
Post by: sravang on December 11, 2020, 09:23:50 pm

I have doubts about aggregate elements and how they are related to their original element.

I got to know about aggregate elements are those elements which have reference to other element but not the original element. I want to know how can I get that original element for that aggregate element through database tables.

Thanks,

Title: Re: Aggregate Elements and their relations.
Post by: Uffe on December 11, 2020, 09:54:17 pm

Hello,

Sounds like you're asking about how some specific source code concept is expressed in UML. There isn't an answer for that: UML is source-language-agnostic.
(They did standardize a profile for Java at some stage, but they haven't maintained it.)

So precisely how UML constructs relate to source code concepts like pointers, references, etc is undefined. Unless you're working with models reverse-engineered by EA, you'll just have to decide how to model those concepts yourself.

HTH,


/Uffe

Title: Re: Aggregate Elements and their relations.
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on December 12, 2020, 10:26:57 am

Quote from: sravang on December 11, 2020, 09:23:50 pm

I have doubts about aggregate elements and how they are related to their original element.

I got to know about aggregate elements are those elements which have reference to other elements but not the original element. I want to know how can I get that original element for that aggregate element through database tables.

Thanks,

Hi Sravang,

I think your definition of an "Aggregate" element is suspect.  Where did you get it from.  In my 30 years of modelling, I've never heard an aggregate element defined that way.

Paolo