Packages have properties displayed on property sheets. All packages share the following common properties:
| Property
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Description
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| Name
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Name that clearly identifies the package
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| Code
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Codes are references for packages
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| Comment
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Optional label that describes a package and provides additional information
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| Stereotype
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Sub-classification derived from an existing package. The following stereotypes are available by default:
- <<archive>> Jar or War archive (Java only)
- <<assembly>> – Specifies that a package produces a portable executable (PE), (C# and VB.NET only)
- <<CORBAModule>> – UML Package identified as IDL module (IDL-CORBA only)
- <<facade>> – Package is a view of another package
- <<framework>> – Package consists mostly of patterns
- <<metamodel>> – Package is an abstraction of another package
- <<model>> – Specifies a semantically closed abstraction of a system
- <<stub>> – Package serves as a proxy for the public contents of another package
- <<subsystem>> – Grouping of elements, some of which constitute a specification of the behavior offered by the other contained elements
- <<system>> – Package represents the entire system being modeled
- <<systemModel>> – Package that contains other packages with the same physical system. It also contains all relationships and constraints between model elements contained in different models
- <<topLevel>> – Indicates the top-most package in a containment hierarchy
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| Use parent namespace
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Defines the package as being the area in which the name of an object must be unique in order to be used
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| Default diagram
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Diagram displayed by default when opening the package
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