April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
8h 32m
English
THIS APPENDIX BRIEFLY explains the Unified Modeling Language (UML) features that this book uses. UML provides conventional notation that this book applies to illustrate the design of object-oriented systems. Although UML is not overly complex, you can easily underestimate the richness of its features. For a rapid introduction to most of the features of the UML, read UML Distilled [Fowler with Scott 2003]. For a more thorough review, see The Unified Modeling Language User Guide [Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobsen 1999]. By learning to use standard nomenclatures and notations, we learn to communicate at a design level, making us all more productive.
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