Fusion Application Object

A Fusion is a relationship between an Application_object and a Class that indicates the Application_object is the whole membership of the Class viewed as a single item.

NOTE - This application object has been defined to indicate the common semantics of other application objects which are specialisations or populations of it. This application object has no interpretation on to the MIM. Instead each of its subtypes is interpreted separately.

EXPRESS specification:

*)
ENTITY Fusion
  ABSTRACT SUPERTYPE;
  class  :  Class;
  whole  :  Application_object;
END_ENTITY;
(*

Attribute definitions:

class: the Class that has all its members forming the whole.

whole: the Application_object that all the members of the class regarded as a single item.