TRANSITIVE RELATIONSHIP IN MODEL DIAGRAM WITH ELEMENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS

摘要

Depicting a UML (unified modeling language) model by: (i) receiving data model data corresponding to a data model including: (a) a plurality of entity nodes, (b) a plurality of transitive relationship links, with each transitive relationship link directly linking two entity nodes, and (c) a plurality of non-transitive relationship links, with each non-transitive relationship link directly linking two entity nodes; and (ii) presenting a presented portion of the data model, with presented portion including at least one transitive relationship link(s) and at least one non-transitive relationship link(s). The presentation of the presented portion includes at least one of the following features: (i) transitive relationship link(s) of the presented portion are presented in a different manner than the non-transitive relationship link(s) of the presented portion; and/or (ii) at least one connection path is represented as a multiple link path.