InformIT articles by Stephen R. Palmer

A five-part mini-series introducing UML to Java developers published on www.informit.com

• A Picture Can Save a Thousand Words: UML Class Diagrams and Java
  A gentle introduction to UML and object modeling from a Java programmer's perspective. Although it's tempting to spend time considering the history and philosophy behind UML, let's get straight down to business and look at how UML represents classes; we can do historical and philosophical stuff as we go.
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• Inheritance and Interfaces in Java and UML
  This article considers the two 'I's of UML class diagrams: inheritance and interfaces.
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• Just Typical: UML Stereotypes and Class Archetypes
  In this article, we start from the opposite end and look at the effect a UML mechanism has on the way we work with our code.
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• Getting Dynamic: Java and UML Interaction Diagrams
  In this article, we move on to consider another type of UML diagram: the interaction diagram.
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