In the first article in our three-part series on the Unified Modelling Language (UML), we introduce key elements of the modelling language, its history and how to pick a UML tool.

Even though I have Team Suite MSDN subscription, since we run VS2008 apparently we can't use the "reverse engineer solution to Visio UML class diagrams" functionality that VS2005 had. Thanks ...

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.

The upper diagram shows a UML diagram, captured using the Together Control Centre, which renders the model simultaneously into Java code and diagrammatic forms. The lower diagram shows a screenshot ...

Some key features include UML modeling with object-model diagrams, code frame generation for C, C++ and Java, model import from Rational Rose, and integration with third-party requirements ...