Building J2EE™ Applications with the Rational Unified Process

Appendix C. Glossary

This glossary defines the terms and acronyms used in this book.

Terms

This section lists the concepts, artifacts and roles of the J2EE Developer Roadmap.

Glossary

Activity

An activity is a unit of work that provides a meaningful result in the context of the project.

Actor (artifact)

An Actor defines a coherent set of roles that users of the system can play when interacting with it. An Actor instance can be played by an individual, an external system, or an external device. An Actor is contained within the Use-Case Model.

Analysis Class (artifact)

An Analysis Class represents an early conceptual model of an element of the system that has responsibility and behavior. In the J2EE Developer Roadmap, an Analysis Class is contained within ...