What is UML?

            

The Unified Modeling Language - UML - is OMG's most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure. 

UML, along with the Meta Object Facility (MOF), also provides a key foundation for OMG's Model-Driven Architecture, which unifies every step of development and integration from business modeling, through architectural and application modeling, to development, deployment, maintenance, and evolution.

OMG is a not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium; our members define and maintain the UML specification which we publish in the series of documents linked on this page for your free download. Software providers of every kind build tools that conform to these specifications. To model in UML, you'll have to obtain a compliant modeling tool from one of these providers and learn how to use it. The links at the bottom of this page will help you do that.