3.2.4 Account UML Class Diagram with an Instance Variable and set and get Methods

We’ll often use UML class diagrams to summarize a class’s attributes and operations. In industry, UML diagrams help systems designers specify a system in a concise, graphical, programming-language-independent manner, before programmers implement the system in a specific programming language. Figure 3.3 presents a UML class diagram for class Account of Fig. 3.1.

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Fig. 3.3 | UML class diagram for class Account of Fig. 3.1.

Top Compartment

In the UML, each class is modeled in a class diagram as a rectangle with three compartments. In this diagram the top compartment ...

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