Part I: The UML-F profile

This part presents the notational elements that comprise the UML-F profile. Chapter 1 points out what a profile is and why the development and adaptation of framework architectures requires one.

The UML presentation in Chapter 2 follows a trend in the UML community. As UML has become quite complex, development teams often use subsets for modeling systems. This chapter summarizes a UML subset that has proven useful in several framework projects and thus forms the basis of UML-F. That UML subset stresses class, object, and sequence diagrams.

Chapter 3 discusses the extension mechanism that UML-F relies on. The tag concept is defined as a unification and improvement of the UML extension mechanisms tagged values and stereotypes. ...

Get UML Profile for Framework Architectures, The now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.