Meaning of Collaboration Diagram:- also called a communication diagram or interaction diagram, is an illustration of the relationships and interaction between entities or objects in the
Unified Modelling Language (UML), Collaboration diagrams resembled a flow chart that represent the roles, functionality and behaviour of individual object as well as overall operation of the system in real time. Being a collaboration diagram as part of interaction diagram which fully shows the dynamic behaviour of a system, collaboration diagram emphasizes on the structural organization of the objects that send and receive messages.
To know more about collaboration diagram as well as it’s functionalities and advantages among other UML diagrams it gives room for model flow and control by time sequence, for modifications, additional information and functionalities For forward engineering as well as reverse engineering.
Purposes:- Collaboration diagrams obtained data in a dynamic system.
- Its describe the data flow in the system.
- It draws the structural organization of the objects in the system.
- It explain the interaction among objects in a system using predefined language
- A collaboration diagram shows the objects and their relationships involved in an interaction, and the sequence of messages exchanged among the objects during the interaction.
Notations
1. Arrow:- Represent messages between objects and are shown as connecting the relevant rectangles along with labels that define the message, sequence number and their respective arguments.
Note: The initial message is not numbered, and the messages that are dependent on previous messages are numbered based on the number of the