A practical benefit of using UML models for system architecture and design is the ability to automatically generate source code. UML is a programming language (higher level than C++ or Java) and UML ...

The upper diagram shows a UML diagram, captured using the Together Control Centre, which renders the model simultaneously into Java code and diagrammatic forms.

While I generally stick to Visual Studio Professional Edition features when writing this column, the full UML support is part of a compelling package in the new architect features of Visual Studio ...

Rhapsody for Ada supports both Ada 83 and Ada 95. The visual Rhapsody for Ada environment incorporates a rule-based, reverse-engineering tool to leverage legacy code within the UML design process.

Understanding the difference requires an understanding of how code generation works inside Visual Studio. The text-templating custom tool is transposed from your template into an interim .NET class ...

The Design by Contract technique stresses the importance of explicitly specifying the constraints that hold before and after a software component executes.