Unified Modeling Language in Practice. Part 1: Background and Structural Modeling

This article is the first of three which provide an overview on the usage of the Unified Modeling Language in technical applications. Part 1 and 2 describe the background of the UML. The main diagrams of UML´s core language are explained and discussed by examples. Part 3 focuses on the dialect UML-RT which has been designed for distributed real-time applications.