## Structure Views Quickly Show Structure and Relations

Understand for Java structure views are designed to present essential information about an entity in a small and concise manner. The structure diagram is derived from the graphs presented by Booch and Buhr in their respective books “Software Engineering with Ada” and “System Design in Ada.” Where needed, the symbols and annotations have been extended or altered to represent the structures and relations used in Javaprograms.

- Declaration (Method) - Shows parameters and return type of a method, and who this method calls and who calls this method.
- Declaration File - Shows the methods, types, and entities declared in the file. Also shows the classes imported by the file.
- Declaration Type - Shows the information about the type.
- Parent Declaration - Shows the declaration structure of the parent of a parameter.
- Return Type - Shows information about a return value type.

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