Making UML activity diagrams object-oriented
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kleppe, A.; Warmer, J.
- Source
- Proceedings 33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems TOOLS 33 Technology of object-oriented languages Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 2000. TOOLS 33. Proceedings. 33rd International Conference on. :288-299 2000
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Unified modeling language
Electrical capacitance tomography
Encapsulation
Software systems
Proposals
- Language
The way the activity diagram in the Unified Modeling Language is currently defined is not object-oriented. Activity diagrams specify data/object flow. We feel that the object-oriented principles should hold for every part of the standard for object-oriented analysis and design. Therefore this paper proposes a few small changes to the UML metamodel that will integrate activity diagrams into an object-oriented scheme, focusing on three fundamental object-oriented principles: responsibility, information hiding/encapsulation, and delegation.