Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The, Second Edition
by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
history state
A pseudostate that indicates that the enclosing composite state remembers its previously active substate after it exits.
See also composite state, pseudostate, state machine, transition.
Semantics
A history state allows a composite state to remember the last substate that was active in it prior to the most recent exit from the composite state. A transition to the history state causes the former active substate to be made active again after executing any specified entry activity or activities on the path to the substate. Incoming transitions may be connected to the history state from outside the composite state or from the initial state.
A history state may have one outgoing unlabeled transition. This transition indicates the initial ...
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