JBuilder and UML

JBuilder is not a full-fledged UML modeling tool. It provides useful UML features that assist you in visualizing and changing (or refactoring) your code. It does not provide features such as drawing dynamic diagrams (activity, sequence, and collaboration) or many other features for which commercial UML tools are available.

JBuilder supports class and package diagrams of the type described in the previous section. Let’s take a look at the features JBuilder provides to work with these diagrams.

Class Diagrams in JBuilder

When a Java file is opened in the AppBrowser, the UML tab at the bottom of the content panel becomes visible. Clicking on this tab allows you to switch to the UML diagram for that class, as shown in Figure 4.3 ...

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