It was developed at Rational Software in 1994–1995, with further development led by them through 1996. The creation of UML was originally motivated by the desire to standardize the disparate notational systems and approaches to software design. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly divided into three main groups: behavior diagrams, interaction diagrams, and structure diagrams. The unified modeling language ( UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
For other uses, see UML (disambiguation).
