Developers create their code and map UML elements to Java at design time, not runtime. So while a UML object maps directly to a Java object, there is no Java language mapping that represents a UML ...

UML is used as a representation of the Java programming language. Using sample class and sequence diagrams, you can see how UML conveys unambiguous code-mapping information to developers.

Object-oriented programming languages came into their commercial heyday in the 1990s, and one of the fringe benefits of object-oriented programming research was the development of a standard way ...

In the first article of this series, 1 we laid out a six-step process for the work involved in translative code generation and described the first three steps in detail. Namely: The developer builds a ...