Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

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Overview

This chapter gives a brief overview of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which is the modeling language of the object-oriented community. If you do not already know the UML, this chapter will give you the minimal understanding you will need to be able to read the diagrams contained in this book.

In this chapter,

I describe what the UML is and why to use it.
I discuss the UML diagrams that are essential to this book:
- The Class Diagram
- The Interaction Diagram

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