Chapter 7. Class Actions
The declaration of a class on a class diagram doesn't “do” anything; the declaration merely states that when we create instances of the class, each object must have the data and behavior declared by the class.
Actions do stuff: They create and delete objects, access attributes and links, make conditional choices, iterate, transform data, and otherwise generally compute. In the course of this book, we shall describe the actions you can specify that make the domain actually do something. In this chapter, we'll describe those actions that affect objects, links, and classes.
Executable UML relies on the Precise Action Semantics for UML [1] adopted as an integral part of UML in late 2001. These action semantics provide for ...
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