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Perhaps use the ‘:’ and EOL as delimiters. (Looking at the PlantUML site, this seems to be how it’s used (at least for sequence diagrams).

You’d need to drop the ’:‘ part of your action rule (and strip the leading : when using your LABELS token). You could avoid this with a Lexer mode, but that seems like overkill.

The plantUML site includes this example:

I think that one of the key point here will be the [hidden] for the arrow. You would start using using something like:

LayeredArchitecture considers all dependencies between layers. You cannot forbid inheritance, but allow access – nor vice versa. I recommend to define individual specific rules instead:

I can this code which resulted in no errors for me

Looks like the issue is caused by the fact that some strings are split over multiple lines (copy / past error or some automatic editor setting at 80(?) characters per line), i.e lines like:

I didn't realize how to exclude certain sub-packages, inside puml. Instead I reorganized my packages structure.

As @Thomas got me thinking in the region of the source of my problem, I have solved it, as follows:

The problem was that the packages that were part of my description of a component(A) were too vague, such that a description of another component(B), could also be considered of that component(A), so some of my classes were thought to belong to >=2 components.

It doesn't look to me like PlantUML is designed to be used in this way: the API isn't documented. Having said that, it's an open source project, so you can download the sources and follow the execution for a given UML string, then recreate that execution with method calls avoiding the UML source, if that's what you need. If you have a debugger that can step through third party code, like IntelliJ, that will help a lot.

I had a little go at that. Here's a class which will generate the "Bob -> Alice : hello" diagram using the Java API without going via UML source string. I included the UML string version for comparison:

NB This is the answer for the previous question of the OP where he wanted a direct ControlFlow from Perform tasks... to Archive document

I don't know whether PlantUML would allow this, but if it does not it would be right. If you create the ControlFlow as you sketched this would cause the middle Action to create a deadlock. It would have two incoming ControlFlows and only one of them can deliver a token. So it would wait forever. Similarly the left Action would never be started.