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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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time constraint

A constraint on the time of an occurrence specification expressed as a time interval.

Semantics

A time constraint can refer to a single occurrence specification or to the time interval between two occurrences. It is expressed as a time interval, but the length of the interval can be zero to restrict it to a single point in time. The time can be absolute time or relative to some starting time.

Notation

A constraint on a single occurrence is shown in a sequence diagram by drawing a horizontal tick mark and placing a time expression in braces next to it.

A constraint on a time interval is shown by drawing a double-headed arrow between two tick marks and placing a time interval expression next to it.

Example

Figure 14-281 shows several ...

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