com.ibm.xtools.uml.type

Interface Summary
Interface	Description
EditRequestParameters	Defines the names of parameters that are supported in requests to modify models.
IActivityEdgeElementType	Implemented by element types that represent a kind of UML activity edge.
IActivityEdgeSpecializationType
IActivityNodeElementType	Implemented by element types that represent a kind of UML activity node.
IActivityNodeSpecializationType
IAnnotationElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the ecore annotation.
ICombinedFragmentElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML combined fragment type.
IConnectorElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML connector type.
IControlNodeElementType	Implemented by element types that represent a kind of UML control node.
IControlNodeSpecializationType
IDiagramElementType	Element type that represents a kind of notation diagram.
IInstanceElementType	Element type that represents a kind of UML instance specification.
IInteractionOverviewActivityEdgeType
IInteractionOverviewActivityNodeType
IInteractionOverviewControlNodeType
IMessageElementType	Deprecated use IMessageElementTypeEx interface instead.
IMessageElementTypeEx	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML message type.
IPseudostateElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML pseudostate type.
IStateElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML state type.
IStereotypedElementType	Interface for element types that are stereotyped.
IStereotypedType	Stereotyped types are types that wrap a base UML type and allow the user to pick a stereotype to apply to instances of the base UML type.
ITemplateParameterElementType	Implemented by element types that specialize the UML parametered element type.
IUMLElementType	Common interface implemented by UML Element Types.

Class Summary
Class	Description
NotationElementTypes	Defines the notation element types which are contributed using the `org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core.elementTypes` extension point.
UMLElementFactory	A factory for commands to edit model elements.
UMLElementTypes	Defines the UML element types which are contributed using the `org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core.elementTypes` extension point.

Package com.ibm.xtools.uml.type Description

Classes and interfaces for modifying models using UML Modeler's extensible commands.

The UML type API enriches common editing commands for many UML element types by extending them with "advice" comprising additional commands that are automatically composed with the basic editing commands such as element creation and deletion. For example, when a UML element is created, it is often assigned a default name and sometimes other related elements are also created, such as a collaboration and an interaction to provide the context for a new sequence diagram. Likewise, when a UML element is deleted from a model, some related elements are also deleted, such as an association when one of its member properties is deleted.

Package Specification

Extensible commands to create, move and destroy model elements are provided by the UMLElementFactory, which also has corresponding convenience methods to perform the creation, move or destroy directly. These editing commands modify the model using the Rational UML Modeler Platform editing domain. Some of the factory methods accept a map of requestParameters, whose keys can be any of the parameter names declared in the EditRequestParameters. The request parameter values carry information used by the extensible commands to perform the model editing operations. For example, the value of the EditRequestParameters.PROPERTY_TYPE parameter is used by the commands to initialize the type of a new UML property when it is created.

UMLElementTypes declares all of the UML element types (metamodel types and specialization types) available for use and extension. Some of these types implement additional interfaces which provide access to additional information carried in the type. For example, an IStereotypedElementType has a getter for the name of the stereotype that is applied to elements of its kind. The UML diagram types are declared in NotationElementTypes.