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Package Nodes
A deployment is the allocation of an artifact or artifact instance to a deployment target.
Package ComponentDeployments
A component deployment is the deployment of one or more artifacts or artifact instances to a deployment target, optionally
parameterized by a deployment specification. Examples are executables and configuration files.
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Dependency (from Dependencies ) on page 61
In the metamodel, Deployment is a subtype of Dependency .
No additional attributes
Package Nodes
• deployedArtifact : Artifact [*] The Artifacts that are deployed onto a Node. This association specializes the supplier association.
Issue 8135 - replace ‘Node with ‘DeploymentTarget ’
• location : DeploymentTarger [1]The DeploymentTarget that is the target of a Deployment. This association specializes the
client association.
Package ComponentDeployments
• configuration : DeploymentSpecification [*] The specification of properties that parameterize the deployment and execution
of one or more Artifacts . This association is specialized from the ownedMember association.
No additional constraints
The deployment relationship between a DeployedArtifact and a DeploymentTarget can be defined at the type level and at the
instance level. For example, a ‘type level’ deployment relationship can be defined between an application server Node and
an order entry request handler executable Artifact. At the ‘instance level’ 3 specific instances appserver1 ... app-server3
may be the deployment target for six request handler* instances. Finally, for modeling complex deployment target models consisting
of nodes with a composite structure defined through ‘parts,’ a Property (that functions as a part) may also be the target
of a deployment.
Deployment diagrams show the allocation of Artifacts to Nodes according to the Deployments defined between them.
An alternative notation to containing the deployed artifacts within a deployment target symbol is to use a dependency labeled
«deploy» that is drawn from the artifact to the deployment target.
Order.jar
ShoppinCart.jar
Figure 10.9 - Alternative deployment representation of using a dependency called «deploy»
The following changes from UML 1.x have been made — an association to DeploymentSpecification has been added.