Creating deployment diagrams

You can use deployment diagrams to model the physical layout or topology of a system. Deployment diagrams describe the configuration of runtime processing nodes and the artifacts that are deployed on them.

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You can create one or several deployment diagrams to illustrate the physical nodes on which your system executes or that support execution, as well as their physical connections and their relationships. You can add diagram elements to represent the nodes that exist in your system and you can add connectors to illustrate the relationships that exist between nodes.
Note: Deployment diagrams are distinct from deployment topologies, a different type of model. For information on deployment topologies, see Modeling deployment topologies.
  • Specifying relationships in diagrams
    In UML, relationships identify the semantic ties that exist between model elements. To add relationships to a model, you must work either in the diagram editor or in the Project Explorer view.
  • Specifying the deployment of artifacts within nodes
    In UML modeling, you deploy artifacts on nodes to indicate that the node supports the deployment of instances of these artifacts when the system runs.
  • Nesting nodes inside other nodes
    In UML modeling, you can nest nodes within nodes to represent the hardware and software components in a system that contains other components.
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Deployment diagrams
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