The Concepts

The following UML, object-oriented, and other concepts are cited in this chapter. For a more complete discussion and more rigorous definitions of UML concepts, refer to Booch et al. [1999].

Component— a physical and replaceable part of a system that conforms to and provides the realization of a set of interfaces

Dependency— a relationship between two elements in which a change to one element may affect the semantics of the other

Deployment diagram— a diagram depicting the hardware configuration used for the database and applications

Device— a node that has no processing capability

Processor— a node that has processing capability

Connection— the association used to show relationships among devices, processors, and each other

The implementation ...

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