Hello all,
thanx for ur tips.
regards,
vivek
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Subject: RE: (ROSE) Inclusion of main() in Sequence Diagrams(newbee
Author: dearborn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at internet
Date: 12/6/00 11:35 AM
The UML has a concept of a "class utility". You can look up the definition
for yourself, but this is what I use for C++ when I have a collection of
functions that are dumped into the same source file.
1. Make your main() method the only method on a class utility; use
stereotypes if you have to.
2. On the sequence diagram, select this as your "class" , or better, look
at this as a component.
3. I think that it is funny that many people think that having a "main", is
not thinking "Object-Oriented"! It does not violate any object oriented
principles: it is an abstraction, it can hide its own details, it can have a
well-defined interface and an instance of it IS created at run-time (as a
process). Java applications have a "main" and other functional blocks of
execution are abstractions (i.e. Thread class). Smalltalk has processes and
tasks as "objects", classes and even blocks of code can become parameterized
and independently run! Functions can be considered as "objects", look at
the C++ STL, and even Java (Comparator). It is all in the DEGREE of amount
of logic that is within the implementation of your main(); there should be
many objects instantiated here and they should perform most of the
responsibilities of main; main() becomes the "great delegator". I think
that is this last notion that many people are attempting to assert.
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Subject: RE: (ROSE) Inclusion of main() in Sequence Diagrams(newbee)
Hi Vivek,
C++ is NOT PURE oo language and hence you have some thing called "Main"
function. This function is out side all classes and beyond OO paradigm.
Comming to your question :
"
i am doing Sequence diagrams for a module to be developed in C++. In
case of C++, the first function to be called is main(). In my Sequence
Diagram, do i show main()?? if yes, then which class does it belong??
"
In sequence diagrams you have to show "objects" (instances of classes) and
since functionality encapsulated in main does not belong to any class so you
can not have objects with these functionalities. So the solution I would
recommend is create a new class with these functionalities and an object of
this class should be used in the sequence diagram.
Hope this helps.
Shiv
Rational
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Shiv Kumar Singh
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Subject: (ROSE) Inclusion of main() in Sequence Diagrams(newbee)
Hello all,
i am doing Sequence diagrams for a module to be developed in C++. In
case of C++, the first function to be called is main(). In my Sequence
Diagram, do i show main()?? if yes, then which class does it belong??
say i have a class InputReader which reads the input from the user.It
is an boundry class and the first class to be called.
in this case, where do i include main() in the seq. diagram and how do
i call a function in InputReader ??
Hope the problem is clear.
Regards,
Vivek
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