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 ...

Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung mit UML und Java ist sicherlich nicht mehr das Thema der Stunde.

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