Part II. Component diagrams.

[Eduardo Cobian]

Hello all,
I have the assigment more or less finished.The funny thing is that I don't know how to represent the components. If I try to represent every component with its dependencies It is impossible because there are too many dependencies lines and it it a mess.
Is there a way to represent the components like if they were packages, so I only show the dependencies between those packages?
I don't find a clue in UML distilled nor in the three amigos book.
Thanks.

[Jun Hong]

I just put components there. Also, I have some Java classes in each component. Well, sometimes they are JSP. I add inferface to component if applicable. Explanations are added too. I got 35/40 finally.

[SJ Adnams]

I got 35/40 for the component diagram too.
Just make sure you seperate the client/middle/EIS tiers (like www.x-nt.com/j2ee.gif ).
I think I should add looking for a Job too my sig file too

[Rajat Juneja]

Guys,
any ideas how the tiers can be represented in component diagrams. Cant find the gif mentioned in here now. is it that important afterall ?
Still not satisfied with what I have put in component diagram. Sometime the it feels like things are getting duplicated in class and component diagrams. Any good resources or examples on component diagrams ?
Rajat

[patrick jiang]

I put subsystem instead of detail components, so that the component diagram is very small.
BTW, I have a very small set of class in my class diagram too. I don't know whether my class diagram is ok.

[Leonardo Penha]

I broke down my component diagram in 3 diagrams so it would be understandable and I explained that this was the reason for doing so.
I got 39/40 (the only point I lost in the whole assignment).

[Nalla Senthilnathan]

Originally posted by patrick jiang:
I put subsystem instead of detail components, so that the component diagram is very small.

Subsystems by themselves may not be sufficient to represent the whole system. I think adding components inside each subsystem with J2EE stereotypes like:
http://www.myjavaserver.com/~nsenthil/TestComps.html
might represent the system more convincingly.
Nalla

[Morten Haugen]

Originally posted by Nalla Senthilnathan:

http://www.myjavaserver.com/~nsenthil/TestComps.html

Try this: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~nsenthil/TestComps.png