UML diagram - how to show FINAL

Question

How would I indicate a

"private static final int DAMAGE = 3;" in a uml diagram?

Would it show up as : - DAMAGE : 3 : int

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You show it like this.

Private is symbolized by a minus. The static attribute is shown by an underline. The initial value is shown by = <value>. Since I learned that final denotes a constant, you will apply the isConst property which is shown as {readOnly}.

See also p. 111 of the UML spec:

<property> ::= [<visibility>] [‘/’] <name> [‘:’ <prop-type>] [‘[‘ <multiplicity-range> ‘]’] [‘=’ <default>] [‘{‘ <prop-modifier > [‘,’ <prop-modifier >]* ’}’]

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No longer relevant in this context, but leaving it anyway:

Re. @granier's comment about tagged values: Indeed UML 2.5 does no longer really use tagged values. There are only 3 mentions of it:

• mainly p. 205

  Just like a Class, a Stereotype may have Properties, which have traditionally been referred to as Tag Definitions. When a Stereotype is applied to a model element, the values of the Properties have traditionally been referred to as tagged values.

So tagged value is an "ancient" term and should further be called stereotype property.

Answer 2

For an UML representation of a Java project, it should be sufficient to write underlined caps, like…

Note that this representation uses a Java convention (constants written in capitals) to highlight it as final instead of a UML annotation, which would be kind of more straight-forward UML, but is too long for my purposes.