Object - Association relationship (link)

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Logical Data Modeling - Association

An Association is just the link on a class diagram that represents visually a relationship.

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Example

Bank

Bank: Given a Bank, a particular accountNo identifies zero or one Person where:

• the qualifier is the Property accountNo,
• the qualified object is the Bank.

Chessboard

• where every possible value for Rank and File indicates an individual Square because the multiplicity is 1:1 (Therefore an individual Square on the Chessboard may be identified by rank and file)
• with a composite relationship (black diamond)

Documentation / Reference

• Unified Modeling Language (UML) - 2.5.1 - chapter 11.5