Setting the defaults for Java UML visual representation

You can configure the default settings for the Unified Modeling Language (UML) visual development tool to meet your needs in visually representing artifacts in your Java™ applications.

You can customize the default Java collection types by adding collection types to the list. 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.

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.

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