To use class diagrams as an effective communication tool, developers must have a consistent understanding of how the elements appearing on a class diagram are translated to Java. Let’s further ...

UML is used as a representation of the Java programming language. Using sample class and sequence diagrams, you can see how UML conveys unambiguous code-mapping information to developers.

Furthermore, JDO lets you do 2-tier testing of the domain model against a database, which is extremely useful, and not possible with entity beans. However, simply using JDO does not guarantee that you ...