Deployment Diagrams

Finally the way the individual components are deployed to a hardware system can be described using the deployment diagram. Because we decided to merge the different diagram types, the editor contains a wide set of elements to be used (see also: Object diagrams, Component diagrams). Deployment diagrams are defined on two levels: object or instance level and class level. For this reason, Poseidon for UML provides both nodes and instances of nodes.

Figure 9-22. A Deployment Diagram.

Diagram Elements

Toolbar

Select

Broom

Node

Instance of a Node

Component

Instance of a Component

Dependency

Class

Interface

Association

Object

Link

Rectangle

Rounded Rectangle

Circle

Line

Text

Polygon

Spline

Ink