How are relationships inherited in a UML class diagram?

Question

I was wondering how associations, dependencies and such relationships are inherited in UML (or, say, in general). So in this situation:

  ┌──────────┐                                        ┌──────────┐
  │  ClassA  │                                        │  ClassB  │
  ├──────────┤                                        ├──────────┤
  │          │─────────"One kind of relation"────────>│          │
  ├──────────┤                                        ├──────────┤
  │          │                                        │          │
  └──────────┘                                        └──────────┘
        ^
       /┬\
        │
        │
        │
        │
  ┌─────┴────┐
  │  ClassC  │
  ├──────────┤
  │          │
  ├──────────┤
  │          │
  └──────────┘

Note:

• ClassA-ClassC is in relation to generalization, the arrow must be solid.
• ClassA-ClassB is in one of [dependency, association, aggregation, composition]
• Unicode is cool, but with an editor font it looks much better :)

My question is: how are these relationships inherited? For example, when ClassA depends on ClassB, will ClassC depend on ClassB? and etc.

Thank.

Answer 1

You are not asking a UML question, you are asking a more general question.

What does inheritance mean?

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Answer 3

Since inheritance is an "is-a" relation (no pun intended), you can read it as "ClassC is ClassA that knows ClassB", therefore:

For example, when ClassA depends on ClassB, will ClassC depend on ClassB?

- Yes:)