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The document provides three examples of UML class diagrams with explanations: 1. An inheritance hierarchy showing Vehicles, Bicycles, MotorVehicles, MotorBikes and Cars. 2. Relationships between Students, Courses and Lecturers showing associations like a Course having a Lecturer and Students. 3. A mixed example of a Company with Employees and Managers, leaving it for the reader to interpret.

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UML Examples

The document provides three examples of UML class diagrams with explanations: 1. An inheritance hierarchy showing Vehicles, Bicycles, MotorVehicles, MotorBikes and Cars. 2. Relationships between Students, Courses and Lecturers showing associations like a Course having a Lecturer and Students. 3. A mixed example of a Company with Employees and Managers, leaving it for the reader to interpret.

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Introduction to Java 2 Programming

Handout UML_Examples.doc

UML Class Diagrams and Examples


Here are some examples of UML class diagrams and explanations of their contents. See if you can interpret the last diagram yourself. Refer to Handout #2 for help with the UML syntax.

Example #1: Inheritance Vehicles


This diagram shows an inheritance hierarchy a series of classes and their subclasses. Its for an imaginary application that must model different kinds of vehicles such as bicycles, motor bike and cars.

Notes
All Vehicles have some common attributes (speed and colour) and common behaviour (turnLeft, turnRight) Bicycle and MotorVehicle are both kinds of Vehicle and are therefore shown to inherit from Vehicle. To put this another way, Vehicle is the superclass of both Bicycle and MotorVehicle

L.Dodds, October 2002

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Introduction to Java 2 Programming

Handout UML_Examples.doc

In our model MotorVehicles have engines and license plates. Attributes have been added accordingly, along with some behaviour that allows us to examine those attributes MotorVehicles is the base class of both MotorBike and Car, therefore these classes not only inherit the speed and colour properties from Vehicle, but also the additional attributes and behaviour from MotorVehicle Both MotorBike and Car have additional attributes and behaviour which arespecific to those kinds of object.

Example #2: Relationships Students and Courses


This example demonstrates relationships between classes. Its from an imaginary application that models university courses.

Notes
Each Course object maintains a list of the students on that course and the lecturer who has been assigned to teach that course

L.Dodds, October 2002

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Introduction to Java 2 Programming

Handout UML_Examples.doc

The Course object has behaviour that allow the adding and removing of students from the course, assigning a teacher, getting a list of the currently assigned students, and the currently assigned teacher. Teachers are modelled as Lecturer objects. As a lecturer may teach more than one course there is an association between Course and Lecturer. The taughtBy relationship shows that a Course only has a single teacher, but that a lecturer may teach several Courses. Each Lecturer object also maintains a list of the Courses that it teaches. There is a similar relationship between Course and Student. A course is attended by zero or more Students, and a Student may attend multiple courses.

This example also demonstrates the use of interfaces. The diagram shows a Person interface that stipulates that objects conforming to this interface will have a getName and getEmailAddress methods. Both Lecturer and Student are shown to be types of Person.

Example #3: Mixed Example Company, Employee, Manager


This example is from a system that models companies, e.g. for a payroll or reporting system. See if you can interpret it yourself!

L.Dodds, October 2002

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