July 2004
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An action that returns the value of a duration at run time.
The duration of a message transmission may be shown on a message as:
name = duration
Figure 14-124 shows an example.
Although this is stated as an action in the UML specification, in most cases modelers would want to make assertions about time without executing run-time actions. It is probably best to regard this as simply a definition of a name that can be used in a constraint expression, rather than a real action.
The basic model of interactions make the assumption that time on different lifelines is independent (an “Einsteinian” assumption). Measuring the duration of a message transmission requires that the time scales of the two lifelines ...
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