Index_B

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B

balking call, 201

ball and socket, for assemblies in a component, 331, 333

base attributes, 56

behavior of actors. See use cases

behavior of class. See operations

behavioral diagrams, 13, 14. See also specific diagrams

behavioral specification, 179, 183–188

behavioral state diagram, 308

behaviors, modeling. See functional modeling

binary relationship, 98

black box components, 327–329

Booch, Grady (original developer of UML), 18

Booch methodology, 35

Boolean datatype, 45, 46

Borland, TogetherSoft tool, 381

boundary class, 123, 389

boxes. See also rectangle

for actors, 138

for classes and objects, 52, 55–56, 59–60

with parallel vertical bars, for active objects, 241

for qualifiers, 77

small, for component parts, 331

stack of, in communication diagram, 240

three-dimensional, for nodes, 333

with two small rectangles, for components, 327–328

braces ({}), enclosing constraint, 56, 63

brackets, square. See square brackets

break operator, 209, 211

brittle systems, 339

bull’s eye, for final-activity nodes, 215

business logic subsystem, 355

business objects, parallelism with software objects, 40

business rules, in use case scenarios, 160

«business» stereotype, 143

button names in messages, 198–199

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