Glossary of Unified Modeling Language Terms - P

P

• Package - A package is a collection or grouping of related classes or of classes with related functionality.
• Package diagram
• Parameter - data passed in a Message to be used within the Method
• Partition - section of an Activity diagram or Sequence diagram occupied by a single Class or Object
• Pin - a parameter of an Action
• Polymorphism - the ability of Objects belonging to different Classes to respond to Operations of the same name, each one according to the right Class-specific behaviour
• Profile - Provides a generic extension mechanism for building UML models. Other extension mechanisms include stereotypes.
• Property - an Attribute or an Association
• Property-string - a qualifier for Attributes and Operations. Examples include {ordered}, {readonly}, {unique}.