Is there an inituitive UML approach to depict threads

Question

I\'m fond of using UML diagrams to describe my software. In the majority of cases the diagrams are for my own use and I use them for more involved pieces of code, interactio

Answer 1

Traditionally threading has been depicted diagramatically using Petri Nets. Rob Martin has an article on multithreading in UML which you may find useful.

Update- just remembered you can represent threads with forks in activity diagrams- I've managed to find something that explains this.

It is very hard to find any free tutorials for Petri Nets, however I know Petri Nets are good for modeling concurrency, so I Google'd "producer-consumer Petri Nets" (my favourite threading thing) and found this.

I've also found some slides that show Petri Nets modeling a Semaphore.