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Deployment Diagram

A Deployment diagram shows how and where the system is to be deployed; that is, its execution architecture.

Hardware devices, processors and software execution environments (system Artifacts) are reflected as Nodes, and the internal construction can be depicted by embedding or nesting Nodes. Deployment relationships indicate the deployment of Artifacts, and Manifest relationships reveal the physical implementation of Components. As Artifacts are allocated to Nodes to model the system's deployment, the allocation is guided by the use of Deployment Specifications.

Example Diagram     Example Deployment Diagram

Tools

Select Deployment diagram elements and connectors from the Deployment pages of the Toolbox.

Deployment Diagram Elements

Deployment Diagram Connectors

e_Node

c_Associate

e_Device

c_CommunicationPath

e_executionEnvironment

c_AssociationClass

e_Component

c_Generalize

e_Interface

c_Realize

e_Artifact

c_Deployment

e_DocumentArtifact

c_Manifest

e_DeploymentSpec

c_Nesting

e_Package