Fwd: Support Stereotype & Producer/Consumer concepts

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> From: Paolo Bottoni <bottoni@di.uniroma1.it>
> Subject: Re: Support Stereotype & Producer/Consumer concepts
> Date: January 8, 2013 10:51:49 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Heiko Braun <ike.braun@googlemail.com>
> 
> Dear Heiko,
> 
> thank you for your message.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, but I was out the whole day, and I will also
> be tomorrow.
> 
> Also, I seem to have not saved the vpp project where I had drawn a
> full proposal, and the pictures which summarised it are only at the
> office. I should have sent the collection of class diagrams some time
> again, though.
> 
> In any case, the idea was that the EventSupport was an abstract class
> from which ConcreteSupports for concrete events were specialised. An
> AIU had a composition relation with any number of EventSupports
> (symmetrically we can have a notion of PresentationSupport).
> Specialisation for EventSupport might be InputSupport,
> SelectionSupport, TriggerSupport, etc. What an EventSupport generates
> is an event of the corresponding type. This constitutes the bridge
> with the notion of Behaviour, as behaviours produce and consume
> resources, events are a special type of resource, and interactive
> behaviours consume interactive events, for example as triggers, or
> input data to be transformed.
> 
> I hope these lines, without the support of diagrams, sound consistent to you.
> 
> Please note that the current version of the AUI model on the googledoc
> does not reflect this view. I already wrote to Jean about this,
> 
> best
> 
> paolo
> 
> 
> 2013/1/8 Heiko Braun <ike.braun@googlemail.com>:
>> 
>> 
>> Paolo,
>> 
>> in one of your earlier drafts there used to be the concept of "producer/consumer" and "resource". In the newer versions the "support" stereotype has been introduced. How does "support" relate to "producer/consumer"? Do we keep the notion of directed associations whereas a "resource" is "produced" and "consumed"?
>> 
>> Regards, Heiko
> 
> 
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