de.armax.ax.devtools.uml
Interface AXassociation

All Superinterfaces:

AXmodelElement

All Known Implementing Classes:

AXassociationMdrImpl, AXassociationNsumlImpl

public interface AXassociation

extends AXmodelElement

Metamodel for am UML association.

This class represents an association from the view of one association end. The same association seen from the other end is a different object.

Author:

Peter Wieland, ARMAX mindware GmbH

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

INTERFACE The qualified name of this interface.

Method Summary

AXassociation	getInverseAssociation() Get an association representing the same UML association as it is seen by the other end.
java.lang.String	getName() Get the name for the association (NOTE: this is not the UML name for this association).
AXassociationEnd	getOtherEnd() Get the non reference or opposite end of an association
AXassociationEnd	getThisEnd() Get the reference end of an association.

Methods inherited from interface de.armax.ax.devtools.uml.AXmodelElement

equals, existTaggedValue, getModel, getNameForCollectionDefine, getNameForCollectionMethod, getNameForCollectionVariable, getNameForDefine, getNameForMethod, getNameForVariable, getNamespaceName, getPackage, getQualifiedName, getRealElement, getStereotype, getSufficientlyQualifiedName, getSufficientlyQualifiedName, getTaggedValue, getTaggedValue, getTaggedValues, getTaggedValueTags, getWellKnownPackages, hasStereotype, isSameNamespace, isSameNamespace

Field Detail

INTERFACE

public static final java.lang.String INTERFACE

The qualified name of this interface.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getThisEnd

public AXassociationEnd getThisEnd()

Get the reference end of an association.

Returns:

the reference end

getOtherEnd

public AXassociationEnd getOtherEnd()

Get the non reference or opposite end of an association

Returns:

the opposite end

getInverseAssociation

public AXassociation getInverseAssociation()

Get an association representing the same UML association as it is seen by the other end. I.e. the two ends are interchanged.

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Get the name for the association (NOTE: this is not the UML name for this association).

The name of an association is (unlike the UML name for an association) build following the rules below.

• If the other end is navigable and the name of the other end is not null, the name will be the other ends name followed by the other end owners name.
• Else if the other end is not navigable and the name of this end is not null, the name will be this ends name followed by the other end owners name.
• Else the name will be the other end owners name

Specified by:

getName in interface AXmodelElement

Returns:

the name exactly as it is specified in the model