Chapter 8. Eclipse Advanced Features

With a solid background in CDT, it's time to turn our attention to some other tools in the Eclipse workshop that can aid software developers. Specifically, in this chapter we'll look at source code control using CVS and software design modeling using UML.

8.1. UML

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a mechanism for expressing the constructs and relationships of complex systems, in particular software systems. More specifically, it is a graphical notation that can be used to describe the various models of a software system.

Some of the ways UML is useful include:

  • Requirements capture
  • Expressing system concepts as classes
  • Understanding how objects interact with each other in specific scenarios
  • Characterizing ...

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