Nesting a node inside another node

In UML modeling, you can nest nodes within nodes to represent the hardware and software components in a system that contains other components.

A diagram must be open in the diagram editor and it must contain at least two nodes. The Nested Nodes compartment of the container node must be visible.
To nest a node in another node, in the diagram editor, click one node and drag it over the Nested Node compartment of another node.

As the following figure illustrates, a node is displayed in the Nested Nodes compartment of the container node.

A node, named Node1, has another node, named Node2, displayed in the Nested Node compartment.

Parent topic: Modeling the deployment and topology view of an application

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