Package and component diagrams
Instructor's Guide
introduction
class diagrams
use cases
interaction
packages
state and activity
discussion
Although classes may be considered the building blocks
of object-oriented applications and frameworks,
they are usually not the units of
deployment nor the units of reuse. See [Szyperski97].
Rather, packages and components may be considered as such.
slide: Package and deployment diagrams
A package diagram, depicted left,
indicates the dependencies between packages,
and possibly classes.
Component or deployment diagrams depict the components,
their exported interfaces and the dependency between components.
Although package and component diagrams are
usually implementation-level diagrams,
it seems advisable to take clustering and
component packaging into consideration in the early stages of design.