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Peter,
Don't some of these hard boundaries make it difficult to take
process support beyond just (nicely structured) documentation? e.g. Shouldn't
templates be generated (or at least be generatable) from from artifact
structure?
Also, which newsgroup should I use?
Thanks & regards.
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:26
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Subject: Re: [epf-dev] Reusing artifacts
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It was not our goal to provide
tools for creating formal artifact models in this release. UML tools
such as Rational Software Modeler do so a much better job at modeling.
EPFC is more about documenting such models. You could create the
model there and then document these in the Artifact's Main Description field
or a separate Concept element.
You
can model some form of containment in EPF, but is not what you are asking for.
You can right-clicking on an artifact and create a new sub artifact.
However, what you describe in your example would be containment on the
M0 level. We model containment on the M1 level only. In other
words, you want to model that instances of Classes can be a part of instances
of Business Models. However, instances of Analysis and Design Models
also contain Classes. We model composition one meta-model level higher:
We say that the Use Case Model model concept comprises of Actor and Use Cases
or the Business Model comprises of Business Entities and Business Workers,
i.e. the model definition is decomposed into sub-model definitions.
Hence, you only model composition here if the children are part of the
definition of the parent. Classes are not part of the Business Model
definition. They are reused and tailored for Business Models.
Hence, they are not a part. However, the instances of these
Classes can be a part of an instance of a Business Model.
As it is often the case that you find decomposition on
M1 and well as M0 it is a bit confusing. I get confused myself a lot, I
have to admit :-)
P.S.: I
think question like these are better discussed in the newsgroup to reach a
broader audience. This email list is for EPF developers.
Thanks and best
regards,
Peter
Haumer.
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I have an Artifact in Method Content (say, "class").
I have two
other artifacts in Method Content, say "Business Model" and
"Subsystem".
How do I say that Business Model and Subsystem both
contain (many)
classses?
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