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Chapter 31. Deployment Diagrams

In this chapter

• Modeling an embedded system

• Modeling a client/server system

• Modeling a fully distributed system

• Forward and reverse engineering

Deployment diagrams are one of the two kinds of diagrams used in modeling the physical aspects of an object-oriented system. A deployment diagram shows the configuration of run time processing nodes and the artifacts that live on them.

You use deployment diagrams to model the static deployment view of a system. For the most part, this involves modeling the topology of the hardware on which your system executes. Deployment diagrams are essentially class diagrams that focus on a system's nodes.

Deployment diagrams are not only important for visualizing, specifying, and documenting embedded, client/server, and distributed systems, but also for managing executable systems through forward and reverse engineering.