iAnywhere Water System User Manual

Defining classes
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You can declare a class to be one of the following stereotypes:
Stereotype Description
actor Coherent set of roles that users of use cases play when
interacting with the use cases
enumeration List of named values used as the range of a particular
attribute type
exception Exception class. Used mostly in relation to error
messages
implementationClass Class whose instances are statically typed, and that
defines the physical data structure and methods of a class
as implemented in traditional programming languages
process Heavyweight flow that can execute concurrently with
other processes
signal Specification of an asynchronous stimulus communicated
between instances
thread Lightweight flow that can execute concurrently with other
threads within the same process. Usually executes inside
the address space of an enclosing process
type Abstract class used only to specify the structure and
behavior of a set of objects, not the implementation
utility Class that has no instances
Type
You can declare a class to be one of the following types:
♦ Business Object
♦ Class
♦ Storage
♦ Utility
♦ Visual Object
♦ JavaBean
Default stereotypes