UML Sequence Diagrams

Sequence diagram is one kind of interaction diagram. It focuses on the message interchange between a number of lifelines.

In ZenUml, we use a simple syntax for the main elements.

Lifeline

Lifeline is a named element. Each lifeline represents only one interacting entity.

How do popular tools define a lifeline?

All the tools allows implicit definition of lifeline and that is the default behavior and recommended way in ZenUml. However, most of them support explicit lifeline definition. This is particularly useful when you want to have the lifeline in an order different from when it appears in the text.

To generate a lifeline like the above, here are the different way in some popular tools.

ZenUml (To be supported)

EventBus Test it on the site

At the beginning of the text, each line with one This syntax can only be used at the beginning of the code. Each line for one lifeline.

websequencediagrams

participants EventBus

JUMLY

@found "You"

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