Java™ Design: Objects, UML, and Process

4.3. The Full Lifecycle

Figure 4.4 illustrates the full lifecycle of traceable artifacts, with the aspects of interest to us illustrated in an expanded form. In the top left corner exists a use case. This use case documents a business process and is contained in the use case view. To the direct right of the use case, traced along the realization relationship, we see a collaboration signifying the realization for this use case. Expanded beneath this realization is a set of interaction diagrams and a class diagram illustrating the UML diagrams that comprise the realization. The center section containing the various packages indicates that the classes contained within the realizations must be allocated to their respective packages before we can ...