The Unified Modeling Language
The Object Management Group (OMG) adopted UML (version 1.0) in November 1997 (the most current release, version 1.4, was adopted in February 2001). This was a remarkable, unprecedented event because it marked the acceptance of a standard modeling language based on the best current practices for the analysis, design, and development of object-oriented software.
UML sprang from the combined efforts of the “three amigos”: Grady Booch with his Booch method, James Rumbaugh with his Object Modeling Technique (OMT), and Ivar Jacobson with his Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) method. As mentioned earlier, some of the terminology and philosophy found in the Synergy Process is based on Jacobson's Objectory Process ...
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