Issue 6441: Integration between behavioral "sublanguages": Interactions and Activities (uml2-rtf)
Source: Pivot Point (Mr. Cris Kobryn, )
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: Although both Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams have
added many advanced features in UML 2, these features appear to have been
added independently, so that they appear as two separate behavioral
languages. Consider improving the integration between them by supporting the
following:
a) Allow for an activity in an activity diagram to represent an invoked
operation in a message on a sequence diagram.
b) Allow for interaction diagram notations to be applied to activity
diagrams, such as the use of references, alternates, and gates.
c) Clarify that time and other constraints can be applied to an activity
diagram in a manner similar to how they are applied to sequence diagrams.

Resolution: Disposition:	Deferred to UML 2.4 RTF
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
November 6, 2003: received issue
Discussion: 
This issue is part of a much larger discussion that cannot be handled by one working
group alone. In fact this issue has to be covered in face-to-face meetings resulting in a
commitment to unify the language even further. It is still an important topic and an
obvious desire for many of us for the future. Due to lack of time, the RTF/FTF agrees that the following are problems that need fixing, but decided to defer their resolution to a future RTF working on this specification.
End of Annotations:=====
eference: UML 2 Superstructure, OMG doc# ptc/03-08-02. Chapters 12 and 14
Issue: Integration between behavioral "sublanguages": Interactions and
Activities
Description: Although both Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams have
added many advanced features in UML 2, these features appear to have been
added independently, so that they appear as two separate behavioral
languages. Consider improving the integration between them by supporting the
following:
a) Allow for an activity in an activity diagram to represent an invoked
operation in a message on a sequence diagram.
b) Allow for interaction diagram notations to be applied to activity
diagrams, such as the use of references, alternates, and gates.
c) Clarify that time and other constraints can be applied to an activity
Issue 6441: Integration between behavioral "sublanguages": Interactions and
Activities              Activities      Conrad B
http://www.omg.org/issues/issue6441.txt
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Defer


This is more then we can do in the FTF.
diagram in a manner similar to how they are applied to sequence diagrams.