Goals of UML 2.0 Superstructure Restructure and refine the language to make it easier to apply, implement and customize Improve support for component-based development specify both platform-independent components (e.g.,business components)and platform-specific components (e.g.,EJB,COM+) Refine architectural specification capabilities ▣ support hierarchical composition of parts with interfaces (compare SDL blocks and processes) Increase the scalability,precision and integration of behavioral diagrams augment sequence diagrams with advanced constructs from MSCs that can be combined and integrated with other behavior update state machines diagrams to make generalizable and able to support a transition-centric view revise activity diagrams to support more flexible parallelism and furnish more 1/O options 口 support executable models Review all UML 1.x constructs and diagrams Tian Zhang Nanjing UniversityTian Zhang @ Nanjing University 7 Goals of UML 2.0 Superstructure „ Restructure and refine the language to make it easier to apply, implement and customize „ Improve support for component-based development ‰ specify both platform-independent components (e.g., business components) and platform-specific components (e.g., EJB, COM+) „ Refine architectural specification capabilities ‰ support hierarchical composition of parts with interfaces (compare SDL blocks and processes) „ Increase the scalability, precision and integration of behavioral diagrams ‰ augment sequence diagrams with advanced constructs from MSCs that can be combined and integrated with other behavior ‰ update state machines diagrams to make generalizable and able to support a transition-centric view ‰ revise activity diagrams to support more flexible parallelism and furnish more I/O options ‰ support executable models „ Review all UML 1.x constructs and diagrams