{"id":5052,"date":"2011-05-04T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2011-05-04T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:32:41","slug":"part-3-the-abcs-of-uml-diagramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/diagrams\/part-3-the-abcs-of-uml-diagramming\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 3: The ABCs of UML diagramming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the final post in this series, which was first kicked off last week. Just to remind you where we left off in Part 1<\/a>; we talked about various UML building blocks, such as Things <\/strong>and what it encompasses. Things <\/strong>are further subdivided into (a) Structural<\/strong>, (b) Behavioral<\/strong>, (c) Grouping <\/strong>and (d) Annotational<\/strong>. In Part 2<\/a>, we carried on our discussion of Things while leaving the aspects of Relationships <\/strong>and Diagrams <\/strong>to be explained in this final post.<\/p>\n

RELATIONSHIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most important building blocks of UML <\/a>is the Relationships that are depicted in a UML diagram. Relationships tell us what elements are associated to each other. This type of association describes the particular functionality of applications. The different types of relationships are listed below.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/strong>Dependency<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a relationship that exists between two things where a change in one element may affect the other one.<\/p>\n

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(b) <\/strong>Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a set of links, which connects elements of a UML model. This type of relationship also illustrates how many instances of an object are involved in that relationship.<\/p>\n

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(c) <\/strong>Generalization<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Generalization is defined as a relationship that makes a connection between a specialized element and a generalized element. This describes an inheritance relationship within the world of objects whereby a specialised object will inherit the behaviours and properties of the generalized parent object.<\/p>\n

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(d) <\/strong>Realization<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Realization is somewhat different from the relationships mentioned above and depicts the relationship between an interface and an implementation of a class. A responsibility is described by one element while the other implements it.<\/p>\n

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UML DIAGRAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

What we have discussed in Part 1 <\/a> and Part 2<\/a> of this series is beneficial if you are about to draw UML diagrams; all the various elements and relationships that have been highlighted thus far are utilized to complete a UML diagram.<\/p>\n

So now where do we go from here? The answer is back to another two-part series that was posted close to a month ago. \u00a0This series will offer you a detailed look into UML diagrams and its subcategories i.e. Structural Diagrams<\/a> and Behavioural Diagrams<\/a>. Ideally both these two series of articles will cover the length and breadth of UML diagrams.\u00a0If you haven\u2019t read it already, you can embark on that knowledge-infused journey, right here<\/a>. :0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the final post in this series, which was first kicked off last week. Just to remind you where we left off in Part 1; we talked about various UML building blocks, such as Things and what it encompasses…. Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40,686,39],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diagrams","tag-collaboration","tag-examples","tag-uml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.creately.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}