The class and object diagrams are so detailed, describing elements such as interfaces and attributes, that translating UML notation into actual programming code is a virtual no-brainer.

First, UML 1.x interfaces only allow for specifying the offered side, and that notation is kept. UML 2.0 also enables you to (optionally) specify the required (client) side as well—shown as the ...

1 UML 2 is a widely accepted object-oriented analysis and design notation. UML includes the OCL 3 that is used ... in the Eiffel method as an essential element of the component interface, providing ...

Different interfaces offered by the same use case need not be disjoint. We use UML notation for interfaces, namely, adding lollipops to classifiers. Figure 2 adds named interfaces to the use cases in ...

Figure 9. Collaborations for OCP and Handshake protocols used in LCD Controller In accordance to UML profile for SoC, protocols are represented by collaboration that contains a channel and two ...