[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.eodm] Re: ODM Profile

[Fernando Silva Parreiras <parreiras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Carlson schrieb:
> I don't have an authoritative response, but my interpretation after 
> reading this a few months ago is that you can use either a UML Property 
> or AssociationClass to model an OWL DatatypeProperty. The reason you 
> would want to use an AssociationClass is when you need to represent 
> property inheritance in OWL. So one AssociationClass would extend 
> another AssociationClass, each of which is stereotyped 
> <<datatypeProperty>>.
>
> My 2 cents.
>  Dave Carlson
>
> Fernando Silva Parreiras wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I have a question about the UML Profile for OWL sugested by OMG.
> >
> > ODM Specification [1], Item 14.2.6.1 (owl:DatatypeProperty):
> >  "«datatypeProperty» with base class of UML::AssociationClass and 
> > UML::Property".
> >
> > Why has it as base class UML::AssociationClass, when this kind of 
> > element is not used anywhere for the mappings?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > [1] http://www.omg.org/docs/ptc/06-10-11.pdf

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your answer and I think also so. That's the only way to represent 
property inheritance.

Cheers,

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