2.1. Origin
The history of the UML is rich, and while we won't go into detail, it's important to understand its deep roots. The UML's original designers, Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh, realized the software industry was saturated with a variety of object-oriented modeling languages and methodologies. Instead of creating another new language, they decided to incorporate the best of the existing languages and methodologies. In October 1995, version 0.8 of the Unified Method was released. After some minor revision, including a change in its name, version 0.9 of the Unified Modeling Language was introduced in June 1996. About this time, the software industry began to take interest in the unification effort, and after some additional ...
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