uml Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created by, the Object Management Group. UML includes a set of graphic notation techniques to create visual models of object-oriented software-intensive systems. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: UML) 4 9 0.2 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/sites/all/datacharts/hc/4912-chart-wp.html