What is the Unified Modeling Language?
The Unified Modeling Language is a third-generation method for specifying, visualizing, and documenting the artifacts of an object-oriented system under development. The Unified Modeling Language represents the unification of the Booch, Objectory, and OMT methods and is their direct and upwardly compatible successor. It also incorporates ideas from a number of other methodologists, including Peter Coad, Derek Coleman, Ward Cunningham, David Embley, Eric Gamma, David Harel, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, Stephen Mellor, Bertrand Meyer, Jim Odell, Kenny Rubin, Sally Shlaer, John Vlissides, Paul Ward, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, and Ed Yourdon. We continue to solicit feedback from these and other methodologists and from the industry at large as we continue their work. Our goal is to make the Unified Modeling Language the basis for a common, stable, and expressive object-oriented development method.
