The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 30. Artifact Diagrams

In this chapter

• Modeling source code

• Modeling executable releases

• Modeling physical databases

• Modeling adaptable systems

• Forward and reverse engineering

Artifact diagrams are one of the two kinds of diagrams found in modeling the physical aspects of object-oriented systems. An artifact diagram shows the organization and dependencies among a set of artifacts.

Deployment diagrams, the second kind of diagram used in modeling the physical aspects of an object-oriented system, are discussed in Chapter 31.

You use artifact diagrams to model the static implementation view of a system. This involves modeling the physical things that reside on a node, such as executables, libraries, tables, files, and documents. Artifact diagrams ...