Title | Unified Modeling Language |
Acronym | UML |
Version | 2.5.1 |
OMG Document Number | formal/2017-12-05 |
Release Date | December 2017 |
About Specification | https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5.1/About-UML/ |
Document | https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5.1/PDF |
This specification defines the Unified Modeling Language (UML), revision 2. The objective of UML is to provide system architects, software engineers, and software developers with tools for analysis, design, and implementation of software-based systems as well as for modeling business and similar processes.
The initial versions of UML (UML 1) originated with three leading object-oriented methods (Booch, OMT, and OOSE), and incorporated a number of best practices from modeling language design, object-oriented programming, and architectural description languages. Relative to UML 1, this revision of UML has been enhanced with significantly more precise definitions of its abstract syntax rules and semantics, a more modular language structure, and a greatly improved capability for modeling large-scale systems.
One of the primary goals of UML is to advance the state of the industry by enabling object visual modeling tool interoperability. However, to enable meaningful exchange of model information between tools, agreement on semantics and syntax is required. UML meets the following requirements: