Profile diagram

In Unified Modeling Language
in the field of software engineering,
a profile diagram
operates at the metamodel level to show stereotypes as classes with the «stereotype» stereotype, and profiles as packages with the «profile» stereotype. The extension relation indicates what metamodel element a given stereotype is extending.

History

The profile diagram did not exist in UML 1.
Other diagrams had been used to display this issue.
It was introduced with UML 2 to display the usage of profiles.