Figure 4 shows an abstraction of Fig. 3 called a UML deployment diagram, which depicts the location of the technology units and the communication links between them.3 The example in Fig. 4 shows that ...

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 ...

This paper analyses a leading-edge Set-top Box (STB) design for architecture reference patterns. Specifically, the following contributions are made: (i) identifying and documenting (in UML) STB ...

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 ...