The Unified Modeling Language User Guide

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For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability. Its inherent expressiveness allows users to model everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems. The in-depth coverage and example-driven approach that made the first edition of The Unified Modeling Language User Guide an indispensable resource remain unchanged. However, content has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes to notation and usage required by UML 2.0. Key Feature New details and updated coverage of provided and required interfaces, collaborations, and UML profiles. Additions and changes to discussions of sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and more. Coverage of many other changes introduced by the UML 2.0 specification. Table of Contents Part I: Getting Started 1. Why We Model 2. Introducing the UML 3. Hello, World! Part II: Basic Structural Modeling 4. Classes 5. Relationships 6. Common Mechanisms 7. Diagrams 8. Class Diagrams Part III: Advanced Structural Modeling 9. Advanced Classes 10. Advanced Relationships 11. Interfaces, Types, and Roles 12. Packages 13. Instances 14. Object Diagrams 15. Components Part IV: Basic Behavioral Modeling 16. Interactions 17. Use Cases 18. Use Case Diagrams 19. Interaction Diagrams 20. Activity Diagrams