The Unified Modeling Language has established as the standard language for the specification, design, and documentation of software systems. For some application domains, such as for the development of object-oriented application frameworks, the UML does not support specific requirements. As an extension to the basic language, the UML-F Profile for Framework Architectures supports the annotation of design patterns in framework design diagrams. Framework developers can explicitly document their design decisions, which help users to better understand the framework. In this book the author...