Packaging

Packaging
for Detailed Design

Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department

bernstdh@jmu.edu

Overview

Packaging

Packages in UML

Packages define a namespace
- Two packages can contain components with the same name
- Package names can be prepended to class names (e.g., Plant::Leaf and Hierarchy::Leaf)
Every element belongs to a package
- The highest level package is the root package
Packages can contain other packages
- java::awt contains java::awt::event

Packages in UML (cont.)

Packages in UML (cont.)

Identifying/Creating Packages

An Example: Some Java Packages

An Example: Packages in IVANA

An Example: Packages in IVANA (cont.)