Hi Gonzalo,
You suggest that both message and event can be one to many relation
vis-a-vis the sender and receiver. Could you give example of this one to
many relation for a "message"? I always was under the impression that
message is a one-to-one relation

Thanks

Pankaj

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I think Jean has already explained how you can get different behavior in
your example, depending on time (in general, depending on the state of the
receiver), with the same operation signature, so I won't insist on it. But I
would like to comment another aspect. In his answer to you, Jean seems to
think that the relationship sender-receiver is one-to-one in operation
calls, and one-to-many in signal sends. I don't agree that this is the case
in UML. The sending of a message is the result of an action in the sender
object. In the UML metamodel, each Action specifies the target of the action
by means of an object set expression which resolves into zero or more
instances [UML Standard, version 1.4, page 2-120], so that, in principle,
both for a signal and for the invocation of an operation the receiver may be
a set of objects [Reference Manual, page 334] (however, the documentation
sometimes suggests that the receiver of an operation call must be a single
object, while the receivers of a signal may be multiple [Reference Manual,
page 333]).

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