Chapter 6 Building Implementation Diagrams

Introducing Implementation Diagrams

The diagrams in this chapter allow you to model the physical environment of your system, and how its components will be deployed. PowerDesigner provides two types of diagrams for modeling your system in this way:

A component diagram represents your system decomposed into self-contained components or sub-systems. It can show the classifiers that make up these systems together with the artifacts that implement them, and exposes the interfaces offered or required by each component, and the dependencies between them. For more information, see "Component Diagram Basics".
A deployment diagram allows you to represent the execution environment for a project. It describes the hardware on which each of your components will run and how that hardware is connected together. For more information, see "Deployment Diagram Basics".