Best UML Tutorials

Here are some of the best UML Tutorials on the web today. UML is short for Unified Modeling Language and is used to model business processes and work flows so they can be designed and developed into software applications.


Best UML Tutorials

Introduction to OMG's Unified Modeling Language (UML)


UML Tutorial Slide Presentations:

• Introduction to the UML (83 slides)
• Behavioral Modeling with the UML (151 slides)
• Advanced Modeling with the UML (131 slides)

Practical UML: A Hands-On Introduction for Developers
This tutorial provides a quick introduction to the Unified Modeling Language and presents some of its important features. At the center of the UML are its nine kinds of modeling diagrams, which are described here.

• Use case diagrams
• Class diagrams
• Object diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Collaboration diagrams
• Statechart diagrams
• Activity diagrams
• Component diagrams
• Deployment diagrams

UML Tutorial
This tutorial provides a technical overview of the UML, which defines the notation and semantics for the following domains. Part 2 of this tutorial expands on how you use the UML to define and build actual systems.

• The User Interaction or Use Case Model
• The Interaction or Communication Model
• The State or Dynamic Model
• The Logical or Class Model
• The Physical Component Model
• The Physical Deployment Model

UML 2.0 Tutorial
Diagrams supported by Enterprise Architect.UML 2 semantics are explained in detail in this tutorial. UML 2 defines 13 basic diagram types, divided into two general sets.

1. Structural Modeling Diagrams

• Package diagrams
• Class or Structural diagrams
• Object diagrams
• Composite Structure
• Component diagrams
• Deployment diagrams

2. Behavioral Modeling Diagrams

• Use Case diagrams
• Activity diagrams
• State Machine diagrams
• Communication diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Timing diagrams
• Interaction Overview diagrams

UML Modeling Tutorials from Sun
These UML tutorials apply to Sun Java Studio Enterprise, which is built on the open-source NetBeans IDE.