object node

A kind of activity node that represents the existence of an object produced by one action in an activity and used by other actions.

See also control flow, object flow.

Semantics

An activity mainly models the flow of control among actions and control constructs. It can also model the flow of values among the actions.

An object node represents an object value that exists at a point within a computation. The object may be the output of one activity node and the input of other activity nodes. An object node has an input object flow connected to a source action (or other activity node). When the source action completes, an object token is generated and placed on the object node. This represents the creation of on object of the class or ...

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