In our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction. The purpose of a class diagram is to ...

One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach (see article 1) is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. There is a widespread misconception that modeling ...

This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

UML simply provides a notational and semantic framework to capture,explore, and document aspects of OO software development. Tomaximize the benefit of using UML, you should apply the languagewithin ...

UML 2.0 consists of a total of ten types of diagrams. Taken together, these diagram types can enable a designer to describe a system or application completely (UML is not limited to software only; you ...

Soon you’ll be able to take advantage of elaborated interfaces and ports, interaction fragments and operators, plus better modeling of behavior over time. DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete ...

Santa Cruz, Calif. — A modeling language that can represent every aspect of an electronic system–including software and electrical or mechanical hardware–has long seemed an impossible dream. But ...