The Unified Modeling Language

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is part of a development to merge (unify) the concepts in the Booch, Objectory and OMT methods (Booch and Rumbaugh 1995; Booch et al 1996). The method is still under development (and has taken a low profile recently), however the notation underlying this method is nearing completion. This notation is now the focus of the current work of Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson and is receiving a great deal of interest. Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Texas Instruments have all endorsed the UML.