The document discusses Unified Modeling Language (UML), including what UML is, why it is used, its history and versions. UML is a standard graphical language for software design that uses diagrams and notation to model a system, helping to understand it more clearly than text alone. It allows viewing a system's architecture through static class diagrams and dynamic sequence diagrams. UML has become the worldwide standard since its creation in 1997 and is currently in version 2.5.