3.1. Analysis of an example application

It is not within the scope of this section to describe (or endorse) a specific analysis method, because the WebSphere programming model can be used with any method. However, we are partial to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as a notation to describe important analysis work products.

We recommend capturing both the static and dynamic requirements of the system into models, where static models describe the data and dynamic models describe the behaviors.

For the static model we will use a UML class diagram that shows objects and associated properties, as well as relationships between them. The relationships are augmented to show such characteristics as role and cardinality.

For the dynamic model we will ...

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