Issue 4921: Profile for Resolution of Operations and Signals                                                                                                                                                        (action-semantics-ftf)
Source: International Business Machines (Mr. Sridhar Iyengar, siyengar@us.ibm.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: [Sridhar Iyengar] 36. Messaging chapter: 'Optional profile for
Resolution of Operations and Signals' May be this section is a carry
over of some earlier work.  Since the whole action semantics spec is an
optional compliance point, what is the point of mentioning an additional
optional profile?  Is this is a separate compliance point?  This is not
called out in the Preface "Compliance Issues".  The two stereotyped
Associations - are these derivations of any existing MetaAssociations in
UML 1.x.?  If these are not, then these two associations are proposed
changes to UML 1.4 and will change the UML 1.x DTD.  Note that in
general profiles are NOT intended to change the UML DTD. If these
stereotyped Associations are expected to be implemented using 'Tagged
Values', then that should be clearly specified - in which case the DTD
does not change.

So we now have an optional profile that is part of the optional Action
Semantics spec? Please clarify the intent and if appropriate mark this
proposed profile package as an additional optional compliance point.
Also this profile is not documented in the same form as other UML
profiles adopted by OMG.

Resolution: accept
Revised Text: In section for Optional Profile for Resolution of Operations and
    Signals in Messaging chapter, replaced figure with equivalent
    stereotype table defining the profile.  The associations between
    BehavioralFeature are replaced with reference tags on
    BehavioralFeature of type Classifier of the same name as the
    original association ends to Classifier.  The text of the first
    paragraph of the section is updated for this changek including the
    short name "ResolvedFeature" for the profile.  The word "resolved"
    is inserted before the word "Reception" in the second paragraph of
    this section
Actions taken:
March 5, 2002: received issue
December 11, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 
Change stereotyped associations to object reference tags, add
  stereotype of BehavioralFeature.
Replace figure with stereotype table, and present like other
  stereotype/tag in UML.

End of Annotations:=====
Summary: Profile for Resolution of Operations and Signals

Text:

[Sridhar Iyengar] 36. Messaging chapter: 'Optional profile for
Resolution of Operations and Signals' May be this section is a carry
over of some earlier work.  Since the whole action semantics spec is
an
optional compliance point, what is the point of mentioning an
additional
optional profile?  Is this is a separate compliance point?  This is
not
called out in the Preface "Compliance Issues".  The two stereotyped
Associations - are these derivations of any existing MetaAssociations
in
UML 1.x.?  If these are not, then these two associations are proposed
changes to UML 1.4 and will change the UML 1.x DTD.  Note that in
general profiles are NOT intended to change the UML DTD. If these
stereotyped Associations are expected to be implemented using 'Tagged
Values', then that should be clearly specified - in which case the DTD
does not change.

So we now have an optional profile that is part of the optional Action
Semantics spec? Please clarify the intent and if appropriate mark this
proposed profile package as an additional optional compliance point.
Also this profile is not documented in the same form as other UML
profiles adopted by OMG.