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Type Hierarchy

we already indicated in the beginning of this section, that component types can be structured in a hierarchy

relationships between the type levels are typed by the «conforms», «impl-conforms», and «realises» relations are transitive, connection from implementation type to provided type is created via a corresponding complete type (all interfaces of the implementation type).

define whether an implementation conforms to a complete or provided type. if a complete type is a refinement of a provided type

relationships are discussed in more detail in the following.



Snowball 2007-03-16