Ideas for uml documenting of extensions
Keith Hutchison
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Ed Kleban
On 1/20/06 2:33 PM, "Keith Hutchison"
<keith.h...@balance-infosystems.com> wrote:
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> Any ideas on how to represent an extension within uml?
As in a module method that uses "extends" to augment some existing class?
Since I don't claim to understand UML yet I don't have any comments to offer
I'm afraid. But it sure is an interesting question in general. Essentially
there are two possible views you want to see. One providing all methods in
the scope context of the class from within which they executed, and one
providing all methods in the context of what Project Item in which they are
defined. I'm going to have to deal with this same issues in REALinsight,
but haven't thought yet much on how I'm going to do that.
I would think that for UML however which is dealing more with the conceptual
design rather than the gory details of the implementation, that you'd be
better off associating "extends" methods with the class they extend, and
perhaps using some special indicator -- an asterisk or "Ex" notation or
something -- to indicate they they are defined in the context of some other
module.