Using edit, topic, and browse diagrams to develop an application

When you develop an application, you can use different types of diagrams to organize and capture new ideas, document and communicate these ideas, or understand an existing application. This tutorial introduces the edit, topic, and browse diagram types and demonstrates how to use them to design, document, and explore application elements in your development workspace.

Learning objectives

This tutorial shows you how to use different types of diagrams to design, document, and explore application elements such as Java code, Enterprise JavaBeans, and database objects. Specifically, this tutorial shows you how to do the following things:

  • Use edit diagrams to organize and capture ideas
  • Use topic diagrams to automate documentation
  • Use browse diagrams to discover and understand workspace artifacts

This tutorial plays in a video format, which you can operate through playback controls. You can pause, advance, or reverse the tutorial at any time by using the control bar.

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