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Enterprise Architect => Uml Process => Topic started by: aram on August 08, 2006, 05:53:29 am

Title: Named element dependencies (UML 2)
Post by: aram on August 08, 2006, 05:53:29 am
According to the UML2 metamodel dependencies are allowed between 2 any named elements. However in EA I can only denote dependencies between classes. What I would like to do is have a dependency between two methods or two attributes.
Will this be fixed in future releases?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Named element dependencies (UML 2)
Post by: thomaskilian on August 08, 2006, 01:52:42 pm
Can you give the pointers in Superstructures (and the version of the latter) pls.?
Title: Re: Named element dependencies (UML 2)
Post by: Jan ´Bary´ Glas on August 08, 2006, 03:10:18 pm
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Can you give the pointers in Superstructures (and the version of the latter) pls.?


I may:
It is Package dependency in UML Superstructure Specification 2.1 from 2.4.2006
(http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5158/dependbq3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
and very similar in 2.0 (except for the directed association)

Title: Re: Named element dependencies (UML 2)
Post by: sargasso on August 08, 2006, 04:22:24 pm
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What I would like to do is have a dependency between two methods or two attributes.

Could you provide an example of how you are (trying to) use this.  I agree that it is a "shortcoming" in EA but can't see how - even if it was available - it could add value.

bruce
Title: Re: Named element dependencies (UML 2)
Post by: aram on August 08, 2006, 11:23:58 pm
At our university we have developed "A modular access control service for supporting application-specific policies" (http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.6dd2a408dbe4a94be487e0606bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1_article&TheCat=&path=dsonline/2006/06&file=o6001.xml&). The main idea is to have a separate corporate-wide security model for subjects and objects and to map them on the application specific domain. From the two models and this mapping it should be possible to generate the full source code for CaesarJ.
I was hoping to implement this using EA.