Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, Third Edition

Chapter 20. Mapping Designs to Code

	Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
	--Donald Knuth

Objectives

• Map design artifacts to code in an object-oriented language.

Introduction

With the completion of interaction diagrams and DCDs for the current iteration of the case studies, there's more than enough thought and detail to cut some code for the domain layer of objects.

The UML artifacts created during the design work—the interaction diagrams and DCDs—will be used as input to the code generation process.

In UP terms, there exists an Implementation Model. This is all the implementation artifacts, such as the source code, database definitions, JSP/XML/HTML pages, and so forth. Thus, the code being created in this ...