The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental, modeling language in the field of software engineering, that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.

UML was originally motivated by the desire to standardize the disparate notational systems and approaches to software design developed by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh at Rational Software in 19941995, with further development led by them through 1996.

In 1997 UML was adopted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG), and has been managed by this organization ever since. In 2005 UML was also published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an approved ISO standard. Since then the standard has been periodically revised to cover the latest revision of UML.

UML has been evolving since the second half of the 1990s and has its roots in the object-oriented programming methods developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The timeline (see image) shows the highlights of the history of object-oriented modeling methods and notation.

It is originally based on the notations of the Booch method, the object-modeling technique (OMT) and object-oriented software engineering (OOSE), which it has integrated into a single language.

Rational Software Corporation hired James Rumbaugh from General Electric in 1994 and after that the company became the source for two of the most popular object-oriented modeling approaches of the day: Rumbaugh's object-modeling technique (OMT) and Grady Booch's method. They were soon assisted in their efforts by Ivar Jacobson, the creator of the object-oriented software engineering (OOSE) method, who joined them at Rational in 1995.

1. What does UML stand for?
2. Is it used in speaking?
3. What field then?
4. What kind of programming is it used for?
5. Who developed it?
6. When did Rational hire James ?
7. From where?
8. When did Ivar join?
9. Who adopted it as standard?
10. When?
11. It was based on what?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Unified Modeling Language
2. no
3. software engineering,
4. to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
5. Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh
6. in 1994
7. General Electric
8. 1995.
9. the Object Management Group
10. In 1997
11. the Booch method, the object-modeling technique and object-oriented software engineering