Making UML Activity Diagrams Object-Oriented

  • Authors:
  • Anneke Kleppe;Jos Warmer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TOOLS '00 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 33)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The way the activity diagram in the Unified Modeling Language is currently defined is not object-oriented. Activity diagrams specify data/object flow. We feel that the object-oriented principles should hold for every part of the standard for object-oriented analysis and design. Therefore this paper proposes a few small changes to the UML metamodel that will integrate activity diagrams into an object-oriented scheme, focusing on three fundamental object-oriented principles: responsibility, information hiding/encapsulation, and delegation.