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Deployment Diagrams

Deployment Diagrams

A deployment diagram shows the physical relationships among software and hardware components in the delivered system. A deployment diagram is a good place to show how components and objects are routed and move around a distributed system.

Each node on a deployment diagram represents some kind of computational unitin most cases, a piece of hardware. The hardware may be a simple device or sensor, or it could be a mainframe.

Figure 10-1 shows a PC connected to a UNIX server through TCP/IP. Connections among nodes show the communication paths over which the system will interact.

Figure 10-1. Deployment Diagram
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. An Outline Development Process
Chapter 3. Use Cases
Chapter 4. Class Diagrams: The Essentials
Chapter 5. Interaction Diagrams
Chapter 6. Class Diagrams: Advanced Concepts
Chapter 7. Packages and Collaborations
Chapter 8. State Diagrams
Chapter 9. Activity Diagrams
Chapter 10. Physical Diagrams
Deployment Diagrams
Component Diagrams
Combining Component and Deployment Diagrams
When to Use Physical Diagrams
Chapter 11. UML and Programming
Appendix A. Techniques and Their Uses
Appendix B. Changes between UML Versions
Appendix Bibliography