I like to create simple class diagrams for my projects. Most of the time I just use composition, inheritence and associations.
IBM's basic UML resource tells all about this.
However I'm using ruby so I got the option to define a module with some methods. I can just include this module in every class where I want to use these methods. This could be interpreted as an inheritence, however some of my classes are already child classes of an other class and I don't want to mix the meaning of a symbol used in my diagrams.
How should I display an included module in my class diagrams in UML?
Best Answer
UML does not have this kind of module concept, so it aso does not have a defined way to represent them in a diagram.
A few possibilities are:
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