the differences between component diagram and package diagram

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Carlos picture Carlos · Dec 11, 2012 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

What is the differences between component diagram and package diagram?

I use Papyrus for system modeling

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guycole picture guycole · Dec 12, 2012

Component diagram typically employed to illustrate interfaces. So a component might be a class or it might be a collection of classes.

A package diagram is a mechanism for you to group together related UML items, think of it as acting like (file system) directory/folder for UML.

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