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Advanced Class Modeling

This document summarizes key concepts in advanced class modeling in UML including enumerations, multiplicity, scope, visibility, associations, aggregation, composition, and propagation of operations. Enumerations define a finite set of values for a data type. Multiplicity specifies the number of values an attribute can have. Scope indicates if a feature applies to an object or class. Visibility refers to the ability of methods to access features in other classes. Associations define relationships between classes. Aggregation and composition are forms of part-whole relationships. Propagation automatically applies operations to linked objects.

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Advanced Class Modeling

This document summarizes key concepts in advanced class modeling in UML including enumerations, multiplicity, scope, visibility, associations, aggregation, composition, and propagation of operations. Enumerations define a finite set of values for a data type. Multiplicity specifies the number of values an attribute can have. Scope indicates if a feature applies to an object or class. Visibility refers to the ability of methods to access features in other classes. Associations define relationships between classes. Aggregation and composition are forms of part-whole relationships. Propagation automatically applies operations to linked objects.

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Advanced Class Modeling

Enumerations
It is a data type that has a finite set
of values.
It is significant for an
implementation; as you may display
the possible values with a pick list
and you must restrict data to the
legitimate values.

Multiplicity
Multiplicity of an attribute specifies
the number of possible values for
each instantiation of an attribute.
If multiplicity is not specified, an
attribute is assumed to be a
mandatory single value

Scope
The scope indicates if a feature
applies to an object or a class
An underline distinguishes features
with class scope from those with
object scope
UML convention is to list attributes
and operations with class scope at
the top of the attribute and operation
boxes, respectively.

Upper model is inferior, because the maximum duration ,


maximum days retained and maximum message count have a
single value for the entire mail system.
In the lower model these limits can vary from different kinds of
users, yielding a more flexible and extensible phone mail system

Visibility
It refers to ability of a method to reference a
feature from another class and has the possible
values of public, protected, private and package.
Any method can freely access public features
Only methods of the containing class and its
descendants via inheritance can access
protected features.
Only methods of the containing class can access
private features.
Methods or classes defined in same package as a
target class can access package features

The UML denotes visibility with a


prefix.
The character + precedes public
features.
The character # precedes protected
features.
The character - precedes private
features.
The character ~ precedes package
features.

Association ends
An

association end is an end of an association


Association end name
Multiplicity
Ordering
Bags and sequences
Qualification
Aggregation
Changeability
Navigability
Visibility

N-ary association
Associations among three or more
classes is called as n-ary association

Aggregation
Aggregation is a strong form of
association

Aggregation versus
association
If two objects are tightly bound by a
part-whole relationship, it is an
aggregation
If the two objects are usually
considered as independent, even
though they may often be linked, it is
an association

Composition
The UML has two forms of part-whole
relationships: a general form called
aggregation and
a more restrictive form called composition

Propagation of operations
Propagation (also called triggering) is
the automatic application of an
operation to a network of objects
when the operation is applied to
some starting object

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