This howto is more a little tutorial that will help you to get started with UiaML. The tutorial will give you a method to get started, but because UiaML is a tool and not a method, it doesn't mean that that method given in this howto is the right- or the only one.

Preliminary phase

Before you start using UiaML you should have an answer to the questions:

• what is the project all about and what is/are the core message(s)?

• which functionality should be provided (you can use UML - Use Cases to determine an answer to this question)?

Let's do this with an example: “De Drop Shop” (or “The Liquorice Shop” in English)

Drop is a famous typical dutch sweet that comes in many flavors and forms.

“De Drop Shop” is a small fictive shop that deals in “Drop”. “De Drop Shop” has no web presents yet and the owner thinks it's time to get a website.

The website should provide information about the location and the opening hours of the shop. The shop also wants to express their expertise in the field of liquorice by providing information about the liquorice plant itself and the liquorice production process.

Finally the shop wants to show the visitors of the site a small piece of the available assortment and allow the customer to buy them online.

The last one is actually a use case, so we specify a simple use case template for it.