Building Blocks of the UML
The vocabulary of the UML encompasses three kinds of building blocks:
Things
Relationship
Diagrams
Things are the abstractions that are first-class citizens in a model; relationships tie these things together; diagrams group interesting collections of things.
UML的基本模块
在UML的词汇表中包含三类基础模块:
元件,关联和图
元件在模型中是一个抽象的概念,它是构建模型的最底层,最基本的元素;关联是这些元件组合在一起的方式;一组有意义的元件集合则形成图群.