Woozle Wuzzle
Combined fragment October 20, 2004 at 06:45 AM
by rgrzywinski | 2 Comments

I'm all for UML to help communicate and serialize ideas in a consistent fashion. There have always been a number of pain points with UML that made me angry. One of them has been in-line guards -- representing conditionals in a sequence diagram. It has been nearly impossible to succinctly represent complex conditonals (e.g. multiple else ifs). UML 2 has introduced the "combined fragment". IBM Developer Works has an article that demonstrates them in action. If you're not up for reading the lengthy article at this time then just check out figure 8. This article uses them in a sequence diagram.

If you use Visio, then these UML 2.0 stencils may come in handy.
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Comment by Anand at October 26, 2004 02:40 AM

[OffTopic]
Given your posts on NIO earlier - thought you might be interested in this -
http://wiki.apache.org/general/JavaFutures
Regards
Anand
 
Comment by rgrzywinski at October 26, 2004 05:19 AM

Thanks for the link.

I didn't know that the timeline for 1.6 was so close!
 
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