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- Introduction
- 16.1 Applying UML: Common Class Diagram Notation
- 16.2 Definition: Design Class Diagram
- 16.3 Definition: Classifier
- 16.4 Ways to Show UML Attributes: Attribute Text and Association Lines
- 16.5 Note Symbols: Notes, Comments, Constraints, and Method Bodies
- 16.6 Operations and Methods
- 16.7 Keywords
- 16.8 Stereotypes, Profiles, and Tags
- 16.9 UML Properties and Property Strings
- 16.10 Generalization, Abstract Classes, Abstract Operations
- 16.11 Dependency
- 16.12 Interfaces
- 16.13 Composition Over Aggregation
- 16.14 Constraints
- 16.15 Qualified Association
- 16.16 Association Class
- 16.17 Singleton Classes
- 16.18 Template Classes and Interfaces
- 16.19 User-Defined Compartments
- 16.20 Active Class
- 16.21 Whats the Relationship Between Interaction and Class Diagrams?
This chapter is from the book
16.16 Association Class
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
16.16 Association Class
An association class allows you treat an association itself as a class, and model it with attributes, operations, and other features. For example, if a Company employs many Persons, modeled with an Employs association, you can model the association itself as the Employment class, with attributes such as startDate.
In the UML, it is illustrated with a dashed line from the association to the association class. See Figure 16.16.
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Figure 16.16 Association classes in the UML.