July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
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English
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APPENDIX
A
UML Notations
INTRODUCTION
In this appendix we review the basics of UML notation for easy reference. We do
not cover all the aspects of UML. For a more thorough treatment of UML, see refer-
ences such as Booch et al. [Boo99]. This appendix includes only a basic summary
of UML diagrams; for a more detailed introduction to what these symbols mean, see
Section 1.3.
A.1 PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS
The most fundamental primitives of UML are the object and the class; an object is
an instance of a class. In addition, various types of relations between objects and
classes are possible. Other types of elements have also been defined. Primitives are
summarized