Class Diagram
Explore the fundamentals of UML class diagrams to represent a system's static structure in object-oriented design. Understand class notation, interfaces, access modifiers, and different association types including inheritance, composition, and aggregation. Gain insights into how these diagrams translate directly into programming languages and facilitate both forward and reverse engineering in software development.
Class diagrams are used to depict the system's static perspective. They are used in the design process to show the shared roles and responsibilities of the entities that produce the behavior of the system.
Class diagrams are widely used in the modeling of object-oriented designs because this is the only UML diagram that can be directly transferred to object-oriented programming languages.
Why use class diagrams?
The following are some important purposes of the class diagram:
Represents the system's static structure.
Directly maps with object-oriented languages.
Represents what the system's duties or responsibilities are.
Uses in both forward and reverse engineering.
Popular notations in the class diagram
The following are some essential notations of the class diagram:
Class notation
Interface, abstract class, and enumeration
Access modifiers
Class notation
A class is represented by a rectangle with three sections. The first section holds the class name, the second one lists the attributes, and the third one shows the methods (operations). The following is the depiction of a `Movie` ...