The two screenshots below show a UML diagram and a Naked Objects user representation of a prototype Conference Management system produced that same afternoon in just a couple of hours, by a group of ...

To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java.

An object in UML maps directly to an object in Java. However, when developers create Java applications, they're creating Java classes, not Java objects.