Yeah it turned into that before kinda dying. Now in the "real world" those tools are only used for diagrams that explain what's called a "slice" of the architecture, but no one really gives a whole architectural view of a system on UML. Not even for a simple component.
But the glimpse you got of it as an undergrad was UML trying to give it's last kick before dying. The whole quest for a formal definition and a standard for it doesn't make sense if you only want to use it to give an architectural level view.
But the glimpse you got of it as an undergrad was UML trying to give it's last kick before dying. The whole quest for a formal definition and a standard for it doesn't make sense if you only want to use it to give an architectural level view.