Create class diagrams with the Unified Modeling Language ... As I’ve shown, the elements appearing on a UML class diagram have a very precise mapping to the Java programming language.

If programmers have little time to create class diagrams and the like in the design phase, there’s scant hope that time pressures will ease enough for them build class diagrams when the code is ...

UML is used as a representation of the Java programming language. Using sample class and sequence diagrams, you can see how UML conveys unambiguous code-mapping information to developers.