[Uml-devel] Q: use of external libs in the UML model?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 05:25:42PM +0200, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> What about use of external libs inside my model?
> If I want the code generator e.g. use STL, Qt or ACE then the question arises 
> whether I have to model these things or whether I can take them as given 
> "data types". That would also mean that new classes can not have names from 
> already existing old classes.
> The problem here are namespaces which allow duplicate class names. These are 
> packages as far as I have understood UML, aren't they?

You can represent libraries as packages.  On component diagrams you
can represent them as components.

You can also just import the individual classes as required.

They arn't datatypes though, that's built in, non-class types.

Jonathan Riddell