Extended ForUML for Automatic Generation of UML Sequence Diagrams from Object-Oriented Fortran

Table 1

A structural comparison of object-oriented concepts between Fortran and Java [24].

Object-oriented equivalent	Fortran	Java
Abstract data type (ADT)	Derived type	Class
Attribute	Component	Property
Method	Type-bound procedure	Method
Parent class	Parent type	Base class
Child class	Extend type	Subclass
Package	Module	Package
Static polymorphism	Generic interface	Overloading
Abstract method	Deferred procedure binding	Abstract
Primitive type	Intrinsic type	Primitive type