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Suggestions and Requests / Re: <<facade>> Package

« on: August 20, 2007, 06:24:14 am »

Hi,

thanks for your quick reply! You're correct Paolo and you understood very well what I intended to do.

I have to recheck UML specification and especially the changes again. Anyway I will miss the <<facade>> package now if that is not allowed in UML 2.0 any more.

From my point of view I understand very well why it may be a problem for physical models like code class models to have elements in more than one package as there is a namespace behavior defined for packages in the superstructure.

I thought for logical models it would be ok to have packages with references / pointers to view different aspects of the model but maybe I was wrong. I can imagine that maybe one intention of the UML 2.0 was to get an easier structure into the model to set this feature obsolete without any substitutes.

Best regards,

Bernhard

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Suggestions and Requests / <<facade>> Package

« on: August 20, 2007, 12:29:17 am »

Hello @all,

I miss a support for the UML 2.0 stereotype <<facade>> on a package. A facade package should only contain references on elements of other packages and is used to furthermore structure the model.

I can apply the stereotype to the package but without effect. If I try to add reference elements from other packages I will fail as they are always removed from that package.

Example: If you model an iterative process from your use cases of the business model packages in UML the iterative packages can be <<facade>> packages including the use cases which should be implemented.

Thanks for replies on that topic,

Bernhard