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Table of Contents 1 UModel 3 2 Introducing UModel 6 3 What's new in UModel 8 4 UModel tutorial 14 4.1 Starting UModel................................................................................................................. 16 4.2 Use cases ................................................................................................................. 20 4.3 Class Diagrams................................................................................................................. 28 4.3.1 Creating derived................................................................................................... classes 34 4.4 Object Diagrams................................................................................................................. 39 4.5 Component Diagrams................................................................................................................. 44 4.6 Deployment Diagrams................................................................................................................. 49 4.7 Round-trip engineering................................................................................................................. (model - code - model) 53 4.8 Round-trip engineering................................................................................................................. (code - model - code) 59 5 UModel User Interface 66 5.1 Model Tree ................................................................................................................. 67 5.2 Diagram Tree ................................................................................................................. 71 5.3 Favorites ................................................................................................................. 73 5.4 Properties ................................................................................................................. 74 5.5 Styles ................................................................................................................. 76 5.6 Hierarchy ................................................................................................................. 79 5.7 Overview ................................................................................................................. 82 5.8 Documentation................................................................................................................. 83 5.9 Messages ................................................................................................................. 84 5.10 Diagram pane ................................................................................................................. 85 5.10.1 Diagram properties................................................................................................... 89 5.10.2 Cut, copy and................................................................................................... paste in UModel Diagrams 91 Altova UModel 2012 1 5.11 Adding/Inserting................................................................................................................. model elements 94 5.12 Hyperlinking modeling................................................................................................................. elements 96 5.13 Bank samples................................................................................................................. 101 6 UModel Command line interface 106 6.1 File: New / Load................................................................................................................. / Save options 110 7 Projects and code engineering 112 7.1 Minimalist UModel................................................................................................................. project - starting from scratch 115 7.2 Importing source................................................................................................................. code into projects 120 7.3 Importing Java,................................................................................................................. C# and VB binaries 125 7.4 Synchronizing................................................................................................................. Model and source code 130 7.4.1 Synchronization................................................................................................... tips 132 7.4.2 Refactoring code................................................................................................... and synchronization 134 7.5 Forward engineering................................................................................................................. prerequisites 135 7.6 Java code to/from................................................................................................................. UModel elements 137 7.7 C# code to/from................................................................................................................. UModel elements 138 7.8 XML Schema................................................................................................................. to/from UModel elements 139 7.9 VB.NET code................................................................................................................. to/from UModel elements 140 7.10 Database to/from................................................................................................................. UModel elements 141 7.11 Including other................................................................................................................. UModel projects 142 7.12 Merging UModel................................................................................................................. projects 144 7.12.1 2-way Project................................................................................................... merge 145 7.12.2 3-way Project................................................................................................... merge 146 7.12.3 Manual 3-way................................................................................................... project merge example 148 7.13 Sharing Packages................................................................................................................. and Diagrams 151 7.14 UML templates................................................................................................................. 154 7.14.1 Template signatures................................................................................................... 156 7.14.2 Template binding................................................................................................... 157 7.14.3 Template usage................................................................................................... in operations and properties 158 7.15 Project Settings................................................................................................................. 159 7.16 Enhancing performance................................................................................................................. 160 8 Creating model relationships 162 8.1 Showing model................................................................................................................. relationships 165 8.2 Associations,................................................................................................................. realizations and dependencies 167 2 Altova UModel 2012 9 Generating UML documentation 172 9.1 Supplied SPS................................................................................................................. stylesheet 179 9.2 User-defined................................................................................................................. Stylesheets 181 10 UML Diagrams 184 10.1 Behavioral Diagrams................................................................................................................. 185 10.1.1 Activity Diagram................................................................................................... 186 Inserting........................................................................................................... Activity Diagram elements 187 Creating..........................................................................................................