June 2009 - Posts

• Balls and Sockets in UML Components

  In my last two posts I outlined the basic ideas of Parts, Ports and Connectors as they appear in Structured Classes. This time I’m going to discuss Components, and in particular the changes we’ve been making in UML 2.3 so that the Components chapter is Read More... Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 12:09 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments

• UML Structured Classes part 2

  Last time I explained about Parts using a small example. But the idea of Parts can extend equally well, if not better, to large examples. Let’s say we have an ordering system that contains a couple of databases, and an ordering module, and an administration Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:51 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments

• UML Structured Classes part 1

  Recently I have spend quite a lot of time working out proposals to fix problems in the definition of UML 2, especially in the area of Components; these proposals will make it into the next version UML 2.3. I’m going to make some postings to explain these Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:53 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments