Chapter 7: Organizing UML Class Diagrams and Packages

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Overview

In This Chapter

• Avoiding confusing class diagrams

• Showing the right number of classes on a single diagram

• Building top-level and second-level diagrams

• Showing the context of your system

• Handling multiple time periods

• Diagramming classes and instances

• Modeling foundation classes

• Considering application classes

• Grouping classes into packages

UML diagrams such as the class diagram are quite versatile. You use class diagrams to express the static structure of the objects and classes you want to model and the static blueprint of the program you want to build. In this chapter we give you some tips for constructing class diagrams. We also show you several different kinds of class diagrams that you can use when modeling systems or developing software.

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