Description of a collaboration

Content

The description of a sequence contains:

· "description" notes

· the list of tagged values

· the stereotype

· the list of constraints

· the list of instances (with their "description" notes)

· the list of sequence messages exchanged between instances (with their "description" notes)

· sequence diagrams (with their "description" notes)

· collaboration diagrams (with their "description" notes)

Generation of instances

All sequence instances are displayed in the form of a bulleted list.

The title contains the instance name, the ":" character, followed by the name of its class (in the case of the HTML generation, a hypertext link towards the file which describes the class or the actor is added).

The instance's "description" notes are inserted.

Generating messages

All the messages exchanged by the sequence instances are displayed in the form of a bulleted list.

The title contains the origin instance, the destination instance and the ":" character, followed by the message name.

The message's "description" notes are inserted.

Generating sequence diagrams

All diagrams defined on the sequence are displayed followed by their "description" notes.

Example

Figure 28. Example of sequence generation