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14.3.29 SendOperationEvent

BasicInteractions


*Generalizations

   

    MessageEvent (from Communications ) on page 463

   Description

   A SendOperationEvent models the invocation of an operation call.

   Attributes

   No additional attributes

   Associations

   • operation : Operation [1] The operation associated with this event.

   Constraints

   No additional constraints

   Semantics

   A send operation event specifies the sending of a request to invoke a specific operation on an object. The send operation event may result in the occurrence of a call event in the receiver object (see Common Behaviors on page 437), and may consequentially cause the execution of a behavior by the receiver object.

   Notation

   None

   Changes from previous UML

   New in UML 2.0.