The OMG's Unified Modeling LanguageTM (UML®) helps you specify, visualize, and document models of software systems, including their structure and design, in a way that meets all of these requirements.
Using any one of the large number of UML-based tools on the market, you can analyze your future application's requirements and design a solution that meets them, representing the results using UML 2.0's thirteen standard diagram types.
You can model just about any type of application, running on any type and combination of hardware, operating system, programming language, and network, in UML. Its flexibility lets you model distributed applications that use just about any middleware on the market.
Built upon fundamental OO concepts including class and operation, it's a natural fit for object-oriented languages and environments such as C++, Java, and the recent C#, but you can use it to model non-OO applications as well in, for example, Fortran, VB, or COBOL.
