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, a profile diagram operates at the metamodel level to show stereotypes as classes with the « 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.

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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.

References

* Christoph Kecher: "UML 2.0 - Das umfassende Handbuch" Galileo Computing, 2006, {{DEFAULTSORT:Use Case Diagram Unified Modeling Language diagrams Systems Modeling Language

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