Issue 8458: UML 2 Super / General / missing merges (uml2-rtf)
Source: International Business Machines (Mr. Jim Amsden, jamsden(at)us.ibm.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: Compliance level L3 references, but does not merge: 

Superstructure::Logical View::UML::CommonBehaviors 

Superstructure::Logical View::UML::CompositeStructures 

There are a number of diagrams in the UML2 Rose model that contain unlabeled dependencies between packages. In particular, Activities, Interactions, StateMachines, and UseCases have dependencies to CommonBehaviors that are unlabeled. See diagram UML/Behavior Packages and UML/UML Top-Level Packages. 

Since CommonBehaviors does not contain any classes, it does not necessarily need to be merged into any compliance level. Instead, the packages it contains are merged as needed. 

Recommendation: 

Remove all unlabeled dependencies between packages, or mark them as either package imports or package merges as needed. 

Resolution: see above
Revised Text: Mark all unlabeled dependencies between packages as package imports in the UML2
metamodel and in figures:
Figure 7
Figure 123
Figure 140
Figure 353
Figure 411
Figure 445
Editor’s note: added figure 11.11
Actions taken:
March 4, 2005: received issue
August 23, 2006: closed issue
Discussion: 
Since CommonBehaviors does not directly contain any classes, it does not necessarily
need to be merged into any compliance level. Instead, the packages it contains are
merged as needed. The package imports are ok because the are merged away in the
compliance levels.
UML2 models are CMOF models, and CMOF does not support dependencies. So all
unlabeled dependencies in the UML2 metamodel should be either package imports or
merges.
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ssue X3: UML 2 Super / General / missing merges 

Source: Jim Amsden, IBM Software 

Summary: 

Compliance level L3 references, but does not merge: 

Superstructure::Logical View::UML::CommonBehaviors 

Superstructure::Logical View::UML::CompositeStructures 

There are a number of diagrams in the UML2 Rose model that contain unlabeled dependencies between packages. In particular, Activities, Interactions, StateMachines, and UseCases have dependencies to CommonBehaviors that are unlabeled. See diagram UML/Behavior Packages and UML/UML Top-Level Packages. 

Since CommonBehaviors does not contain any classes, it does not necessarily need to be merged into any compliance level. Instead, the packages it contains are merged as needed. 

Recommendation: 

Remove all unlabeled dependencies between packages, or mark them as either package imports or package merges as needed.