A profile in the
Unified Modeling Language
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally m ...
(UML) provides a generic extension mechanism for customizing
UML
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally m ...
models for particular
domain
Domain may refer to:
Mathematics
*Domain of a function, the set of input values for which the (total) function is defined
**Domain of definition of a partial function
**Natural domain of a partial function
**Domain of holomorphy of a function
* Do ...
s and platforms. Extension mechanisms allow refining standard semantics in strictly additive manner, preventing them from contradicting standard semantics.
Profiles are defined using
stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example ...
s, tag definitions, and constraints which are applied to specific model elements, like Classes, Attributes, Operations, and Activities. A Profile is a collection of such extensions that collectively customize UML for a particular domain (e.g., aerospace, healthcare, financial) or platform (J2EE, .NET).
Examples
The UML Profile for
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
is defined by David Carlson in the book "Modeling XML Applications with UML" pp. 310 and describes a set of extensions to basic UML model elements to enable accurate modeling of
XSD
XSD (XML Schema Definition), a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C), specifies how to formally describe the elements in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document. It can be used by programmers to verify each piece of item con ...
schemas.
SysML
The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications. It supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems.
S ...
is an
Object Management Group
The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standardization, standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies.
Business activities
The goal of the OMG was a common portabl ...
(OMG)-standardized profile of
Unified Modeling Language
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally m ...
which is used for
system engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinking p ...
applications.
MARTE
Marte may refer to:
*Marte, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Borno State
*Marte (surname), including a list of people with the name
* C.D. Marte, a Mexican football club
*C.D. Atlético Marte, a Salvadoran football club
* ST ''Marte'', a tug in ...
is the OMG standard for modelling real-time and embedded applications with UML2.
The UML profile for relationships (see also
[ Haim Kilov. 2015. Business Modelling: Understandable Patterns, Practices, and Tools. In: Revised Selected Papers of the International Workshops on Behavior Modeling -- Foundations and Applications - Volume 6368, Ella Roubtsova, Ashley Mcneile, Ekkart Kindler, and Christian Gerth (Eds.), Vol. 6368. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 3-27. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21912-7_1 ]) is based on RM-ODP and provides precise specifications of the semantics of UML concepts used to specify generic (not necessarily binary) relationships such as composition and subtyping.
See also
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Stereotype (UML)
A stereotype is one of three types of extensibility mechanisms in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the other two being tags and constraints. They allow designers to extend the vocabulary of UML in order to create new model elements, derived fr ...
Footnotes
References
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External links
UML 2 Profile
Unified Modeling Language
Systems Modeling Language
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