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Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The, Second Edition
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Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The, Second Edition

by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
35h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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duration observation action

An action that returns the value of a duration at run time.

Notation

The duration of a message transmission may be shown on a message as:

							name = duration

Figure 14-124 shows an example.

Discussion

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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