Drawing deployment diagrams

Deployment diagram shows the physical aspects of an object-oriented system. It also shows the configuration of run time processing nodes and artifacts.

Creating deployment diagram

Click on UML on toolbar and select Deployment Diagram from the drop down menu.
Right click on Deployment Diagram in Diagram Navigator and select New Deployment Diagram from the popup menu.
Select File > New Diagram > UML Diagrams > Deployment Diagram from the main menu.

Create deployment diagram

Creating node model element

To create node model element, right click on the background of Model Explorer and select Model Element > New Model Element from the pop-up menu.

Create model element

In the New Model Element dialog box, type Node (Deployment) in Model element type, type the node name in Model element name. Click OK to confirm.

Create node

A node model element will be created.

Node created

Creating instance of node

To create instance of node, click Instance Specification on the diagram toolbar and then click on the diagram.

Create instance specification

An instance specification will be created.

Instance specification created

Selecting classifiers

To specify classifiers for an instance specification, right-click it and select Select Classifier > Select Classifier... from the pop-up menu.

Select classifier

When the Instance Specification Specification dialog box pops out, the Classifiers tab is opened by default. Select the classifier(s) on the left and click Add Selected button to add them.

Add selected classifiers

Click OK button to close the specification dialog box. The selected classifiers are assigned to the instance specification.

Classifiers assigned

Creating link

To create link from instance specification, move the mouse over the target shape and press its resource icon Link -> Instance Specification.

Create link

Drag to empty space of the diagram to create a new instance specification, or drag to an existing instance specification to connect to it. Release the mouse button to create the link.

Link created

Creating instance of component

Similar to creating instance of node, you first create a component model element, and then create an instance specification, but this time assigns a component to the instance specification as classifier. After that the instance specification will be displayed as a component.