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5. Composition and UML Association


  • Association is a relationship between objects describing availability of instances to locate each other.

  • Associations are the glue that holds together an object model.

  • UML associations can

    • have names

    • be ordered

    • specify multiplicity (cardinality, or size of a collection)

    • spell object roles

    • provide other attributes.

    association
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