Association end ownership's effect on code generation

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Hi,

Does anyone know what is the effect of setting the association end ownership from “association” to “classifier” on
the code that gets generated?

In other words,

  1. I start with an empty diagram
  2. I create class A and class B
  3. I connect A and B with an association A-B
  4. the association end at A is named as a
  5. the association end at B is named as b
  6. the association end ownership for a is set to class B (by default it is set to the association A-B itself)
  7. I generate Java code for this diagram

How does the generated code now differs if I omit step 5 ? I.e. if I use the default value ?

What is the meaning of setting the association end ownership of a to class B ? What difference does it make ?

Cheers

Jozsef

ps.: here is the corresponding question with pictures at stackoverflow :