PlantUML: Anchors and duration in a sequence diagram

Using teoz pragma, we can define anchors.

 

anchros.txt

@startuml

!pragma teoz true

{job1_start} client -> server : submit job1 details to the server
server -> database : Request for job1 confiuration
database -> server : Send job1 configuration
{job1_end} server -> client : finish
{job1_start} <-> {job1_end} : took 5 minutes

||100||

{job2_start} client -> server : submit job2 details to the server
server -> database : Request for job2 confiuration
database -> server : Send job2 configuration
{job2_end} server -> client : finish
{job2_start} <-> {job2_end} : took 10 minutes

@enduml

 

Above snippet generates below diagram.

  

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