Developing UML Diagrams From XMI in Oracle JDeveloper

Overview

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is based on the use of diagrams to visually represent business process flows as well as interactions among software and data components. XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), designed to streamline data integration, is a popular format for representing UML objects; a UML diagram may be stored in XMI format, and conversely, a UML diagram may be created from an XMI file. For this reason, XMI facilitates the transmission of UML diagram data, and many UML tools support this interchange capability. This paper describes the method for manually creating an XMI file from an XSLT, importing it into a UML tool (Oracle JDeveloper 10g), and then constructing a UML class diagram from the XMI file.