difference between "method" and "operation"

[Giulio]

I'm studying Craig Larman's "Applying uml and Patterns" (third ed.)
reading at the book it seems (16.6) that Operations and Methods in a
Class diagram are something different but it's not explained what's the
difference.

I always thought they were the same thing.
Do someone knows what's the difference?

thanx alot
Giulio

ps. I'm sorry if this question is not in the right newsgroup, I didn't
know any better one.

[Michael G]

"Giulio" <fr*************@email.it.invalid> wrote in message
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I'm studying Craig Larman's "Applying uml and Patterns" (third ed.)
reading at the book it seems (16.6) that Operations and Methods in a Class
diagram are something different but it's not explained what's the
difference.

I always thought they were the same thing.
Do someone knows what's the difference?

thanx alot
Giulio

I don't have the third edition but am looking at page 186-7 of the
second edition. In this section he states how the *UML defines* operations
and methods. He is not referring to Java or an other programming language.
So in the UML an *operation* is defined as an abstraction (much like an
interface in Java) and a *method* is defined as the implementation of the
abstraction.
operation in the UML
public void setSomething(Something s);

method in the UML
public void setSomething(Something s)
{
this.something = s;
}
If you aren't satisfied with this response or from this group. You might try
comp.object.

Mike

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[Giulio]

thanx it's ok

[Jubril]

an operation in a programming language can mean the interaction of many
Methods. To calculate the roots of a Quadratic equation which is an
operation, one might need to call several methods like
calculate Square root()
calculate firstroot()
calculate second root()
"Giulio" <fr*************@email.it.invalid> wrote in message
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thanx it's ok