The following introductory UML guidance is available from IBM Rational website (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/info/literature/whitepapers.jsp -- This hyperlink in not present in this generated websitehttp://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/info/literature/whitepapers.jsp):

  • Introduction to the Unified Modeling Language

There is also a UML resource page at: http://www.uml.org -- This hyperlink in not present in this generated websitehttp://www.uml.org/.

Suggested books on UML are: [BOO98], [RUM98] and [RUM05].

See also differences between UML versions that are relevant to RUP context on Differences Between UML 1.x and UML 2.0.

Rational Unified Process   2003.06.13