[Uml-devel] user story

Luis De la Parra Blum lparrab at gmx.net
Tue Oct 15 15:24:03 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 15 October 2002 14:00, Andrew Sutton wrote:

> anyway, while waiting to rebuild the cvs version, i've been casually
> combing thru the uml standard (you know, for kicks). there's an excellent
> section on the specification of stereotypes that shows just about what
> visio does for stereotype specification.
>
> anyway, there's ways to introduce new elements into the UML metamodel
> without building any new code. stereotypes, as we know, are one of those.
> in the UML design, a Stereotype is a class derived from Class that has some
> default attributes and something called "Tags"  (also a class) - oh. it has
> Constraints too. Tags are user defined extension attributes for elements.
> actually,  IIRC, tags can be applied to any model element. hmm... i'll have
> to check. nope. Tags are only associated with Stereotypes. that's
> interesting.

just what I was talking about in the mail I sent 10 mins. ago....
as I said.. I am trying to catch up with my email...
sorry if I reply to topics which are already closed or something like that... 
just ignore my mails in that case.

luis




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