Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The, Second Edition
by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
invocation
The request to execute a designated parameterized behavior element or behavioral feature.
Semantics
An invocation request is an action that specifies a behavior element or behaviorally feature and a list of argument values. For many kinds of invocation, it also designates a target object. The types of the values in the argument list must match the corresponding parameters in the behavior element. Depending on the kind of invocation, the request is either asynchronous or synchronous. For an asynchronous request, the action forms the target object, behavior element designation, and argument values into a request packet that is transmitted to the target object (or to the targets implied by the specific action). The invoking thread is ...
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