Seq Diagram Drawing try catch block in UML

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Lisa picture Lisa · Nov 8, 2014 · Viewed 12.1k times · Source

I have a question, how can I draw try catch block in sequence diagram in UML? Can I draw the try as the normal case and the catch as the alternative case or no?

I'm using Visio to dram the UML sequence diagrams.

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Bela Vizer picture Bela Vizer · Nov 9, 2014

UML sequence diagram lacks of being able to visualize exceptions. There are "workarounds" however, please refer to:

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