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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition
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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition

by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 15

Components

A component is a logical, replaceable part of a system that conforms to and provides the realization of a set of interfaces.

Good components define crisp abstractions with well-defined interfaces, making it possible to easily replace older components with newer, compatible ones.

Interfaces bridge your logical and design models. For example, you may specify an interface for a class in a logical model, and that same interface will carry over to some design component that realizes it.

Interfaces allow you to build the implementation of a component using smaller components ...

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