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Sierra/Bates Ch 5 Self Test #5 (aggregation)

 
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class C {}
class A { C c = new C(); }
class B extends A {}
Is there an aggregation from B to C? I think not. The relationship is between A and C.
In UML diagrams, when they draw an aggregation from one class A to another C, they do not draw an aggregation from the subclasses of A to C.
In the UML Reference Manual inheritance is a concept related to but distinct from the generalization relationship. Inheritance is a mechanism for combining shared incremental descriptions to form a full description of an element.
In the UML Reference Manual they say an aggregation relationship is transitive across all aggregation links. If A aggregates B and B aggregates C then A aggregates C. They do not say If A aggregates C and B extends A then B aggregates C.
[ April 17, 2003: Message edited by: Marlene Miller ]
 
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I think this question is really about is-a and has-a. When I answered it, I mentally reworded it to ask "Does B have-a C?". The answer is yes, by inheritance from class A.
 
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Originally posted by Barry Gaunt:
I think this question is really about is-a and has-a. When I answered it, I mentally reworded it to ask "Does B have-a C?". The answer is yes, by inheritance from class A.


Yep --the way Barry is thinking about it is *exactly* what the question is looking for.
In fact, on the real SCJP, we deliberately made the exam objectives for is-a and has-a no more precise than we did, because we are testing ONLY for whether you understand the fundamentals of is-a and has-a, period.
It is the high-level nature of those two relationships that matter. More fine-grained distinctions of composition and aggregation, and/or UMLspecifics are tested only by the Architect exam (and I think one of the IBM exams).
I'm going to open another topic in just a moment, though, because I *have* been seeing some confusion about just how deep and detailed the exam gets, especially in obscure areas of the spec (the exam does NOT), and I just want to make sure that newcomers here aren't becoming worried about the nature (and scope) of the exam. What *is* on the exam, and the way the questions are worded, is challenging enough as it is
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Kathy
 
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