May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
8h 37m
English
A class is an abstraction from a set of conceptual entities in a domain so that all the conceptual entities in the set have the same characteristics, and they all are subject to and behave according to the same rules and policies. [58]
A constraint is a rule, expressed as a calculation in terms of other classes, attributes, and associations, that restricts the values of attributes and/or associations in a model. [125]
A constraint idiom is a general pattern for a commonly occurring type of constraint that can be represented by a predefined tag. [128]
A core data type is a fundamental datatype from which other domain-specific datatypes can be defined. [65]
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