To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java.

If modeling projects aren't available, check that you have the Ultimate version. Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To ...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) represents a logical view of your application. This is distinct from the physical view represented by the Class Diagrams available in all SKUs of Visual Studio.

. Stephen J. Mellor is vice president of Project Technology, Inc., the company he and Sally Shlaer co-founded in 1985, now located in Tucson, AZ. He can be contacted at [email protected]. In the first ...