What Is UML?
UML, as its name implies, is a modeling language. The UML User Guide defines UML as “a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system.” UML gives you a standard way to write the system’s blueprints. In a nutshell, UML offers a way to graphically represent and manipulate an object-oriented (OO) software system. It is not only the representation of the design of a system, but a tool to assist in this design.
UML is a synthesis of different modeling languages developed independently by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson, affectionately called the Three Amigos. The software company Rational brought the three modeling languages together under one roof—thus ...
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