[news.eclipse.tools.uml2] Re: Can a Slot of a Class instance own a Liter

["James Bruck" <jbruck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andreas,

The Slot can directly own the LiteralInteger in the Value's collection.  A
LiteralInteger is a ValueSpecification.

Cheers,

- James.



"Andreas Maier" <maiera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a question related to InstanceSpecifications.
>
> In a user model, consider a Class C1 which owns a property p1 of type
> Integer (the built-in UML PrimitiveType).
>
> Now an InstanceSpecification I1 of class C1 gets created. It has a slot
> for the property p1 into which an object of type ValueSpecification can
> be put.
>
> My question is:
>
> - Does UML2 allow to put a LiteralInteger object directly into the slot
> (the UML 2.1 Superstructure spec seems to allow that), or does it have
> to be another InstanceSpecification object which in turn owns the
> LiteralInteger object via its specification association (which is what
> my UML2 based UML Editor causes to happen) ? (i.e. one indirection level
> more)
>
> Andy