Manifestation relationships

In UML modeling, a manifestation relationship shows which model elements, such as components or classes, are manifested in an artifact. The artifact manifests, or includes, a specific implementation for, the features of one or several physical software components.

Typically, manifestation relationships do not have names.

As the following figure illustrates, a manifestation relationship is displayed as a dashed line with an open arrow at one end. The keyword «manifest» appears beside to the dashed line.

A component is manifested by an artifact named Artifact2.


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