15.6 Applying Stereotypes when Building a Model
Once a user model has a profile applied to it, the stereotypes from the profile may be applied to model elements within that user model. How stereotypes are used depends on whether the intended purpose of the profile is a domain-specific language, or as a source of ancillary data and rules to support a particular aspect of the model. Although there is nothing in the specification of a profile to differentiate the two cases, often tool vendors will add custom support tailored to the intended use when building the profile.
For a given stereotype, its extension relationships define the model elements that it can validly extend, subject to the model element satisfying any additional constraints that ...
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