/*
 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved.   This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *   IBM - initial API and implementation
 *
 * $Id: Gate.java,v 1.4 2007/04/25 17:47:04 khussey Exp $
 */
package org.eclipse.uml2.uml;

import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.DiagnosticChain;

/**
 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
 * A representation of the model object '<em><b>Gate</b></em>'.
 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
 *
 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
 * A gate is a connection point for relating a message outside an interaction fragment with a message inside the interaction fragment.
 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
 *
 *
 * @see org.eclipse.uml2.uml.UMLPackage#getGate()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public interface Gate
		extends MessageEnd {

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The message leading to/from an actualGate of an InteractionUse must correspond to the message leading from/to the formalGate with the same name of the Interaction referenced by the InteractionUse.
	 * true
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateMessagesActualGate(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

	/**
	 * <!-- begin-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- end-user-doc -->
	 * <!-- begin-model-doc -->
	 * The message leading to/from an (expression) Gate within a CombinedFragment must correspond to the message leading from/to the CombinedFragment on its outside.
	 * true
	 * @param diagnostics The chain of diagnostics to which problems are to be appended.
	 * @param context The cache of context-specific information.
	 * <!-- end-model-doc -->
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 */
	boolean validateMessagesCombinedFragment(DiagnosticChain diagnostics,
			Map<Object, Object> context);

} // Gate