Objects are not usually shown in class diagrams. Instead, they are shown in separate diagrams illustrating the interactions among objects. When using UML to show regulatory structure, it is useful to ...

Harel StateCharts are gaining widespread usage since a variant hasbecome part of the Unified Modeling Language. The diagram type allowsthe modeling of superstates, concurrent states, and activities as ...

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 ...

There’s much hoopla about the upcoming UML 2.0 specification, even though it’s many months away from being released in its final form. Conflicting reports from a number of sources have confused users, ...

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 ...