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sequence diagram with actor

 
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When drawing a sequence diagram for a use case (for scea 5), do you need to display actor also?

Reading document at http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/uml2_tutorial/uml2_sequencediagram.html makes me think it is a good idea to include it.
But does any one know if Boundary, control and entity elements also needs to be included in sequence diagram.

Thanks
 
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personally I didnt include the actor in the sequence diagram.
 
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I think you should include the Actor in the sequence diagram. Boundary, Control & Entity are Rational/IBM concepts as is the concept of "Use case realization" so they are not part of the UML standard. Specifically, in Rational Rose they use different UML representation for those types of classes. If you do decide to use "Boundary/Control/Entity", make sure you represent them as classes (maybe strereotyped) and not using the Rose notation. That's what I am doing anyway.

Hope this helps.
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talu singh wrote:When drawing a sequence diagram for a use case (for scea 5), do you need to display actor also?

Reading document at http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/uml2_tutorial/uml2_sequencediagram.html makes me think it is a good idea to include it.
But does any one know if Boundary, control and entity elements also needs to be included in sequence diagram.

Thanks



You can find this complete sequence diagram tutorial to clarify what you've mentioned above.
 
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