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Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
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Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
July 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
6h 52m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Interaction Diagrams

Class Diagrams show static relationships between classes. In other words, they do not show us any activity. Although very useful, sometimes I need to show how the objects instantiated from these classes actually work together.

The UML diagrams that show how objects interact with each other are called Interaction Diagrams. The most common type of Interaction Diagram is the Sequence Diagram, such as shown in Figure 2-8.

Figure 2-8. Sequence Diagram for the shapes program.

Sequence Diagrams are read from top to bottom.

  • Each rectangle at the top represents a particular object. Although many of the rectangles have class names in ...

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