July 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 51m
English
The UML defines several diagrams that can be used to illustrate implementation details. The most commonly used is a deployment diagram, to illustrate the deployment of components and processes to processing nodes.
To quote: component represents a modular, deployable, and replaceable part of a system that encapsulates implementation and exposes a set of interfaces [OMG01]. It may, for example, be source code, binary, or executable. Examples include executables such as a browser or HTTP server, a database, a DLL, or a JAR file (such as for an Enterprise Java Bean). UML components are usually shown within deployment diagrams, rather than on their own. Figure 38.4 illustrates some common notation. ...
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