Chapter 24. Shaping the Future of the UML

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

  • Extensions for business

  • Lessons from the business extensions

  • Modeling GUIs

  • Modeling expert systems

Here we are in the final hour. It's been a long haul, but in the process you've seen a lot of the UML. In the last two hours, you've looked at applications in hot areas. In this hour, you'll wrap it all up with a current UML extension and a look at some other areas for applying the UML.

You read about UML extensions and profiles in Hour 14, “Understanding Packages and Foundations.” The goal of this hour is to start you thinking about how you would apply the UML in your domain and perhaps ultimately develop a domain-specific profile. Like any language, the UML is evolving. Its future ...

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