Glossary of Unified Modeling Language Terms - E

E

• Edge - a synonym for Flow
• Encapsulation - a means to bind together code and the data it uses. It is the basis of object oriented programming.
• Entity -
• Enumeration - a set of constant values for a new data type
• Event - when it occurs on an Object it may cause a Transition in a State machine diagram
• Expansion region - a set of Actions in an Activity diagram that occur once for each of a collection of input Tokens to the Expansion Region
• Extend - a means to use a class as a starting point for creation of a new class. The new class inherits all of the attributes, properties, and methods of the class it extends.
• Exception -