Issue 18162: Meaning of State in ProtocolStateMachines (uml25-ftf)
Source: Simula Research Laboratory (Mr. Bran Selic, selic(at)acm.org)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: Minor
Summary: Category: Minor




In the section on “State in ProtocolStateMachines” it is stated:

“The States of ProtocolStateMachines are exposed to the users of their context Classifiers. A protocol State represents an exposed stable situation of its context Classifier: When an instance of the Classifier classifier is not processing any BehavioralFeature invocation, users of this instance can always know its state configuration. ”

This does not seem to make sense, at least for declarative protocol state machines – they do not have a run-time manifestation, so it is not clear what it means for the state of such a machine to be “exposed to collaborators”.

 



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October 10, 2012: received issue
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s is issue # 18162	From: Bran Selic <selic@acm.org>

Issue: Meaning of State in ProtocolStateMachines

Category: Minor


In the section on .State in ProtocolStateMachines. it is stated:

.The States of ProtocolStateMachines are exposed to the users of their context Classifiers. A protocol State represents an exposed stable situation of its context Classifier: When an instance of the Classifier classifier is not processing any BehavioralFeature invocation, users of this instance can always know its state configuration. .

This does not seem to make sense, at least for declarative protocol state machines . they do not have a run-time manifestation, so it is not clear what it means for the state of such a machine to be .exposed to collaborators..