« stereotype»
stereotype, and profiles as packages with the «profile»
stereotype. The extension relation (solid line with closed, filled arrowhead) indicates what metamodel element a given stereotype is extending.
History
The profile diagram did not exist in UML 1. It was introduced with UML 2 to display the usage of profiles. Before its introduction, other diagrams had been used to display this issue.See also
* UML diagramsReferences
* Christoph Kecher: "UML 2.0 - Das umfassende Handbuch" Galileo Computing, 2006, {{DEFAULTSORT:Use Case Diagram Unified Modeling Language diagrams Systems Modeling Language