Unified Modeling Language
Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an “object modeling and specification language used in software engineering (“Unified Modeling Language”, 2005).” It was created to consolidate and standardize 50 different modeling languages that were used by many businesses. The project request to normalize the modeling languages was made by Object Management Group (OMG) and answered by James Rambaugh, Grady Booch, and Ivar Jacobson. In addition to Rambaugh, Booch, and Jacobson, a team called the UML Partners, which included Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, and other businesses submitted proposals that were either declined or integrated with the UML proposal. The Unified Modeling Language “is tailored specifically for object oriented systems development” (Siau & Cao, 2001). The new modeling language was successful and was adopted by OMG as their modeling language standard.
The main purpose of Object Management Group’s request to standardize......
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