Hackers,

I understand that domain polymorphism has advantages of a plug-n-play 
environment in terms of the receivers being automatically retrieved from the 
domain specific directors allowing the actors to retain their behavior in 
different domains. 

1. However, most of the time the modeler knows what MoC is being employed to 
model a certain component and I believe it is rare that someone would change 
their mind that requires changing the domain director during modeling. 

2. From the documents the hierarchy describing the polymorphism is incomplete 
and it seems like many actors are not domain polymorphic with many other 
domains. 

So, though this feature is very handy for the GUI visualization and a very neat 
concept, what are the true uses of such domain polymorphism? 

3. Are transparent composite actors a result of requiring structural hierarchy 
and to facilitate the GUI for large models?

Thank you for your assistance,


-- 
~ Hiren <hiren at vt dot edu>





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