Managing relationships between Java elements

In UML visualization, you can create relationships between Java elements and show or hide existing relationships.

You can show attributes as associations or show associations as attributes. You can also show operation signatures and the parent names of Java elements.

Showing the parent name displays the fully qualified package name in which a class is owned. It is useful to show parent names, for example, when you need to know the containing projects of Java elements or you have a class diagram that displays Java elements that belong to different packages.

Showing and hiding relationships
In UML visualization, you can update an open class diagram or selected classifiers by showing or hiding relationships that match your selected criteria.

Showing operation signatures of classifiers
In UML visualization, you can show the operations of classifiers with the full signature of parameters along with the full package names in class diagrams.

Showing parent names of classifiers
In UML visualization, you can show the parent names of classifiers in Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams.

Changing Java field collection types
In UML visualization, you can change collection types of Java fields.

Changing Java association collection types
In UML visualization, you can change collection types of Java associations (association relationships in class diagrams).

 

Parent topic

Examining structures and relationships of Java applications by using UML class diagrams

 

Related tasks

Customizing the Java visual design tool
Creating UML class diagrams
Populating class diagrams
Generating Javadoc HTML documentation with diagram images