In our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction.

Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To include elements in multiple diagrams, drag them from the UML Model Explorer.

To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java.

Typical usage patterns of UML subsets in the field of behavioral SoC designs exploit state-machine, activity, and sequence diagrams in combination with use cases.