Joaquin Miller (joaquin@acm.org)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:36:12 -0600
At 06:52 PM 1/19/00 , robert france wrote: > >On the other hand, have you considered teaching heresy: that the associations of a class diagram can have several meanings? > >I think they can have several meanings in the context of a single development project (though many have disagreed with me on this!). i feel the culprit in this case (and many others) is the seductive idea (that we all secretly would like to belive): that there can be some single end-to-end object model to cover a project from tackling the problem through deploying the solution. there can't. and so it is likely inadequate to limit the meaning of association to relation.