Chapter 5. Understanding Aggregations, Composites, Interfaces, and Realizations

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

  • How to model classes that consist of other classes

  • How to model interfaces and their connections with classes

  • The concept of visibility

You've learned about associations, multiplicities, and inheritance. You're almost ready to create meaningful class diagrams. In this hour, you'll learn the final pieces of the puzzle, as you delve into additional types of relationships and other issues connected with classes. The ultimate goal is to be able to create a static view of a system, complete with all the interconnections among the system's classes.

Aggregations

Sometimes a class consists of a number of component classes. This is a special type of ...

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