Chapter 22. UML Tools and UML as Blueprint

 

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

 
 --F. P. Jones

Introduction

It isn't useful to discuss specific UML tools in detail because this is a rapidly changing subject—information is quickly stale. However, this chapter points out some common features and the use of such tools for “UML as blueprint.”

Introduction

As mentioned, three ways people wish to apply UML include:

  • UML as sketch.

  • UML as blueprint—

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