Saturday, March 7, 2009

ArgoUML doesn't support abstraction dependencies.

In the UML, an abstraction relationship shows that one element is an abstraction on another. This is rendered as a dependency relationship stereotyped as abstraction. This is not an available stereotype for dependency elements in ArgoUML 2.6. The abstraction dependency doesn't necessarily need to be attached to the dependency directly.

The UML defines three predefined stereotypes in which the abstraction stereotype is attached to. These are derive, refine, and trace. However, when modeling dependencies, these stereotypes aren't available either.

So, if you have a need to specify these types of dependencies in your models, I wouldn't recommend ArgoUML (although I would recommend it for other UML modeling purposes). In fact, I don't even think Umbrello or Gaphor will get this right.

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