Rules

• Name: The value can be anything.

  The name of the item.

• Keywords: The value can be anything.

  A keyword is a lightweight variant of a stereotype to extend the semantics of a model element. As opposite of stereotypes, keywords does not have do be defined in a profile.

  If several keywords are given, they should be separated by commas.

• Stereotypes: The value can be anything.

  A stereotype defines how a model element may be extended, and enables the use of platform or domain specific terminology or notation in place of, or in addition to, the ones used for the extended metaclass.

  Stereotypes should be given in the format 'profile::stererotype'. Stereotypes should be separated by commas.

• Documentation: The value can be anything.

  A textual description of the element.

• Visibility: The value shall be a valid literal from the enumeration Visibility Kind.

  Determines where the item appears within different Namespaces within the overall model, and its accessibility.

An element of one of the following kinds:

• Artifact (Artifact)

  An artifact is the specification of a physical piece of information that is used or produced by a software development process, or by deployment and operation of a system.

  Examples of artifacts include model files, source files, scripts, and binary executable files, a table in a database system, a development deliverable, or a word-processing document, a mail message. An artifact is the source of a deployment to a node.

• Deployment Specification (Deployment Specification)

  A deployment specification specifies a set of properties that determine execution parameters of a component artifact that is deployed on a node.

  A deployment specification can be aimed at a specific type of container. An artifact that reifies or implements deployment specification properties is a deployment descriptor.

An item of one of the following item kinds:

• Activity (Activity)
• Actor (Actor)
• Artifact (Artifact)
• Association (Association)
• Call Event (Call Event)
• Class (Class)
• Collaboration (Collaboration)
• Communication Path (Communication Path)
• Component (Component)
• Data Type (Data Type)
• Deployment Specification (Deployment Specification)
• Device (Device)
• Enumeration (Enumeration)
• Enumeration Literal (Enumeration Literal)
• Execution Environment (Execution Environment)
• Extension (Extension)
• Information Item (Information Item)
• Instance Specification (Instance Specification)
• Interaction (Interaction)
• Interface (Interface)
• Model (Model)
• Node (Node)
• Opaque Behavior (Opaque Behavior)
• Package (Package)
• Primitive Type (Primitive Type)
• Profile (Profile)
• Protocol (Protocol)
• Protocol State Machine (Protocol State Machine)
• Signal (Signal)
• State Machine (State Machine)
• Stereotype (Stereotype)
• Use Case (Use Case)

• Can be the Target of elements of the following kinds:
  • Abstraction (Abstraction)
  • Dependency (Dependency)
  • Information Flow (Information Flow)
  • Realization (Realization)
  • Substitution (Substitution)
  • Usage (Usage)