/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2011 IBM Corporation, CEA, and others.
 * All rights reserved.   This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *   IBM - initial API and implementation
 *   Kenn Hussey (CEA) - 327039
 *
 * $Id: AssociationClass.java,v 1.8 2009/08/12 21:05:19 jbruck Exp $
 */
package org.eclipse.uml2.uml;

import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Association Class</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A model element that has both association and class properties. An AssociationClass can be seen as an association that also has class properties, or as a class that also has association properties. It not only connects a set of classifiers but also defines a set of features that belong to the relationship itself and not to any of the classifiers.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getAssociationClass()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface AssociationClass
		extends org.eclipse.uml2.uml.Class, Association {

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * An AssociationClass cannot be defined between itself and something else.
	 * self.endType->excludes(self) and self.endType>collect(et|et.allparents()->excludes(self))
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateCannotBeDefined(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The owned attributes and owned ends of an AssociationClass are disjoint
	 * ownedAttribute->intersection(ownedEnd)->isEmpty()
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateDisjointAttributesEnds(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // AssociationClass