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amax
amax

Reputation: 23

UML - Class inheritance, what do you inherit?

Does inheritance in UML indicate just inheriting the attributes/operations, or also the links/associations?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1467

Answers (3)

UML GURU
UML GURU

Reputation: 1462

A good test would be to detect inheritances by the UML reverse engineering into a class diagram from an existing code. Thea java inheritance code is explained at: http://www.java.happycodings.com/Learning/code26.html

Attributes are usually used for associations detections. Dependencies are coming from both inheritance and association as well as other code.

Upvotes: 0

amax
amax

Reputation: 23

I also found this useful for generalization: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rsahelp/v8/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.xtools.modeler.doc/topics/cgeneral.html

"You can add generalization relationships to capture attributes, operations, and relationships in a parent model element and then reuse them in one or more child model elements."

Upvotes: 0

Lazarus
Lazarus

Reputation: 43064

It's really going to depend on how the links/associations are declared: public, private or protected. Links and associations are commonly implemented using properties so any links/associations implemented as private would not be inherited however protected or public would be inherited.

Upvotes: 3

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