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.

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 ...

These two screenshots show a simple prototype of a conference management system created in one afternoon by a group of Java developers at OT2002. The upper diagram shows a UML diagram, captured using ...