The Unified Modeling Language User Guide SECOND EDITION [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Chapter 26. Artifacts

In this chapter

• Artifacts, classes, and manifestation

• Modeling executables and libraries

• Modeling tables, files, and documents

• Modeling source code

Artifacts live in the material world of bits and therefore are an important building block in modeling the physical aspects of a system. An artifact is a physical and replaceable part of a system.

You use artifacts to model the physical things that may reside on a node, such as executables, libraries, tables, files, and documents. An artifact typically represents the physical packaging of otherwise logical elements, such as classes, interfaces, and collaborations.