September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 15m
English
book
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition
by Martin Fowler
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Chapter 13. Composite Structures
One of the most significant new features in UML 2 is the ability to hierarchically decompose a class into an internal structure. This allows you to take a complex object and break it down into parts.
Figure 13.1 shows a TV Viewer class with its provided and required interfaces (page 69). I’ve shown this in two ways: using the ball-and-socket notation and listing them internally.
Figure 13.1. Two ways of showing a TV viewer and its interfaces
Figure 13.2 shows how this class is decomposed internally into two parts and which parts support and require the different interfaces. Each part is named in the form name : class ...