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Unified Modelling Language (UML)
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Unified Modelling Language	has definition A standard language for modelling various aspects of software, which includes, among other things, a set of diagrammatic notations
	has custodian Object Management Group (OMG)
	has extension mechanisms which allow software designers to represent concepts that are not part of the core of UML
	has objective to assist in software development
	has semantics which describe the meaning of the various notations
	is not a methodology because it does not describe in a step-by-step way how to do things
	is a subtopic of 5.1 - What is UML?
	is abbreviated as UML
	is accepted as the standard approach to representing many aspects of software
	is an instance of modelling language
	is associated with Object Constraint Language (OCL), a textual language that allows you to state various facts about the elements of the diagrams
	is used to create visual models of a software system
	is a kind of graphical language
	was invented by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson in the 1990's
language	see also language^2