[ http://jira.andromda.org/browse/UMLMETA-56?page=history ]
Chad Brandon reassigned UMLMETA-56:
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Assign To: Chad Brandon (was: Wouter Zoons)
> Generalizations on associations?
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>
> Key: UMLMETA-56
> URL: http://jira.andromda.org/browse/UMLMETA-56
> Project: UML Metafacades
> Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Andy Jones
> Assignee: Chad Brandon
>
> I posted the following message on the general AndroMDA site and Chad Brandon
> suggested I log it here:
> It appears that the AssociationFacade extends from ModelElementFacade:
> (http://team.andromda.org/docs/andromda-metafacades-uml/apidocs/org/andromda/metafacades/uml/AssociationFacade.html)
> Whereas ClassifierFacade extends from GeneralizableElementFacade:
> (http://team.andromda.org/docs/andromda-metafacades-uml/apidocs/org/andromda/metafacades/uml/ClassifierFacade.html)
> The UML 1.4 specifications state that both a Classifier and an Association
> are subclasses of GeneralizableElements, and tools such as MagicDraw support
> generalizations on associations.
> UML 1.4:
> http://www.andromda.org/andromda-metafacades/resources/UML14Metamodel.pdf
> It is quite important for our application that we can specify that certain
> associations (say between two abstract classes) are abstract, and that other
> associations (say between two sub-classes) extend from the abstract
> association.
> At the moment I'm using a fix of putting signals in the association
> documentation but it would be preferable if the Metafacade could support the
> features of:
> - Abstract associations
> - Generalizations on associations.
> thanks
> Andy Jones
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