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Enterprise Architect => Uml Process => Topic started by: rhkrhk on September 21, 2007, 03:31:55 am

Title: Difference between partition and Swimlane
Post by: rhkrhk on September 21, 2007, 03:31:55 am

Within an activity diagramm I can add a partition as an object and allocate other objects (i.e. Actions and Activites) to it.
On the other hand I can colour the background using the context menue to "configure a swimlane"

I can not see the difference between these to methodes to the end of structuring the activity diagramm, to see which Actor is doing what, looking for to many hand overs and the like.

Title: Re: Difference between partition and Swimlane
Post by: BURAK on October 29, 2007, 11:13:53 pm

Try to see this one:
http://www.agilemodeling.com/artifacts/activityDiagram.htm

Title: Re: Difference between partition and Swimlane
Post by: cerevro on October 31, 2007, 06:05:40 am

I think that semantically are the same, but you can use a partition (or several) inside a swimlane in order to specify a specialization of the swimlane.