UML patterns

Here are presented high level use cases as well as some other useful UML diagrams to make things clearer about conception issues.

Use Cases

High level use case:

Metadata management

The ComplexNode class enables to fully describe the structure of a metadata.
The MetadataInitializer it enables to initialize the <Metadata> class in a polymorph way.
The MetadataFactory class enables to generate the metadata classes <Metadata> according to a the specified description in ComplexNode , to instanciate it and to initialize it.
A Metadata can be then associated to any kind of experiment object (Worflow, Task ...) or business object (BusinessObject).