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Improving Code Generation for Associations: Enforcing Multiplicity Constraints and Ensuring Referential Integrity

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Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 496))

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UML classes involve three key elements: attributes, associations, and methods. Current object-oriented languages, like Java, do not provide a distinction between attributes and associations. Tools that generate code from associations currently provide little support for the rich semantics available to modellers such as enforcing multiplicity constraints or maintaining referential integrity. In this paper, we introduce a syntax for describing associations using a model-oriented language called Umple. We show source code from existing code-generation tools and highlight how the issues above are not adequately addressed. We outline code generation patterns currently available in Umple that resolve these difficulties and address the issues of multiplicity constraints and referential integrity.

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Badreddin, O., Forward, A., Lethbridge, T.C. (2014). Improving Code Generation for Associations: Enforcing Multiplicity Constraints and Ensuring Referential Integrity. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 496. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00948-3_9

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