Class Diagram

• Resource: http://www.smartdraw.com/resources/centers/uml/uml2.htm.
• The highlights:
• Class diagrams represent the classes that make up a program, their methods, and their instance fields (attributes).
• A class diagram has boxes that represent classes.  Each class has exactly one box.
• The box is divided into three panes:
• The top pane has the name of the class.
• The middle pane has attributes (instance fields) of the class.  This includes the type of attribute and any initial value.
• The bottom pane has the methods of the class.  This includes the parameters passed to the methods and the return type.
• If you leave the either or both of bottom two panes blank, to save space or because attributes and/or methods do not exist, you must still divide the box into three parts.

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 17, 2001