The upper diagram shows a UML diagram, captured using the Together Control Centre, which renders the model simultaneously into Java code and diagrammatic forms. The lower diagram shows a screenshot ...

To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java.

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.

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 ...