5.12. Package Diagrams
A package, as stated previously, is a directory in which classes reside. Packages are represented in UML via the package diagram. You can use them to represent dependencies between packages and show the classes contained in a package. A package diagram is shown in Figure 5.5.
Figure 5.5. Package diagram.
Package diagrams help you get a high-level overview of how your system will be put together. Writing these is a very iterative process, like the class diagrams. You don't always know ahead of time how you will implement a certain feature, whether you'll do it using this or that technology. Package diagrams can help you see ...
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