Friday, October 12, 2007

UML Structural Modeling: Component and Deployment Diagrams

Component Diagrams
A component is part of the system that exists when the system is operating. The component modeling focuses on modeling the implementation of the system. The component view focuses on the big picture and tries to break the system down into major functional areas.
One can conceive of a business system that has a user interface, an accounting component, a business rules component, a reporting element, a data component and communicationsetc.
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Each of these components behaves much like the classes that we saw earlier. In addition, there are component instances, which behave much like objects.. For instance, one can see a web piece of a user interface, as well as a client/server (desktop) interface. One can also easily imagine a set of b View the rest of this article


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