Tips for Modeling Deployment Diagrams

Following are tips and techniques that you can use when modeling deployment diagrams. For tips on working with component diagrams, see Tips for Modeling Component Diagrams.

Reusing Elements of Existing Diagrams

Using the Shortcut command on the diagram's context menu, you can reuse existing elements in other component diagrams.

Indicating a Temporary Relationship Between a Component and Node

Objects and components can migrate from one component instance to another component instance, and respectively from one node instance to another node instance. In such a case, the object (component) will be on its component (node) for a temporary period of time. To indicate this in the diagram, use a dependency relationship, and set the stereotype to "becomes".

Representing How a Component Resides on a Node

A component may reside on a node element. You can represent this in two ways:

• Set the stereotype to "support" and use the dependency link.
• Graphically nest the component symbol within the node symbol.