Animating black-box sequence diagrams

IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® includes extended animation for sequence diagrams. Animated instance lines (classifier roles) can represent run-time objects and their internal structure (their parts) as opposed to a single, run-time object (as in previous versions). This enables you to validate higher-level sequence diagrams specified before the elaboration of the internal structure of the classes.

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Note: By default, animated instance lines in the product are mapped to single objects. To activate this feature, you must modify the property settings of the instance lines.

You can map any instance line on a sequence diagram to one of the following items:

In addition, you can specify that during animation, messages sent from the instance line to itself are not displayed.

Two properties support this functionality:

Note: If you change the values of these properties after the sequence diagram has been initialized, the changes will not take effect until you close and reopen the animated sequence diagram.

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