Customizing the Java visual design tool

In UML visualization, you can configure default settings for Java Unified Modeling Language (UML) visual examination and design.

You can customize the default Java collection types. By default, Java attributes are shown as associations in UML class diagrams. For example, if an attribute type is a collection, it is shown as an association to the collection type (vector) in a class diagram. In most cases, this might not be useful. Therefore, it is useful to show the type that the collection contains. Adding a collection type to the list of Java collection types enables you to change the Java collection types.

You can customize the default settings for visibility styles and icons, and showing operation signatures, attribute and operation compartments, and parent names.

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.

Setting the default for showing parent names
In UML visualization, you can set the default for classifiers to show parent names when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Setting the default for showing operation signatures
In UML visualization, you can set the default for classifiers to show operation signatures when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Changing the default for showing attribute and operation compartments
In UML visualization, you can change the default so that attribute and operation compartments do not appear when you add classifiers to a class diagram.

Changing the default visibility style for attributes and operations
In UML visualization, you can change the default visibility style for attributes and operations that appears when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Defining default Java collection types
In UML visualization, you can define default Java collection types by adding them to the Java to UML mapping preferences.

Customizing the default Java types to be shown or filtered out in diagrams
In UML visualization, you can customize the default Java types to be shown or filtered out in class diagrams when you populate diagrams.

 

Parent topic

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

 

Related tasks

Creating UML class diagrams
Populating class diagrams
Managing relationships between Java elements
Generating Javadoc HTML documentation with diagram images