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Article: UML 2.0 -- a major revision of the industries de facto software modelling language. (Technote -- Software Intelligence).(Unified Modelling Language)
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- Software World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Over the past 5 years the Unified Modelling Language (UML) has been growing in popularity and I have seen it dramatically improve the effectiveness of client's software development. The UML is a graphical language for specifying, visualizing, constructing and documenting the artefacts of software systems. It represents a collection of the best engineering practices proven successful in modelling large and complex systems. The language is used to model software systems prior to construction, as a method of automating the production of software, improve quality, reduce cost, and time-to-market. It can also be used to solve recurring architectural problems such as physical ...