Developing Applications with Java™ and UML

Dynamic Modeling

The dynamic models focus on the interactions between objects—instances of the classes identified in prior chapters that work together to implement the detailed pathways through the use-cases. Dynamic models add considerable value to the project, as follows: For the first time we

• Bring together the classes and use-case pathways and demonstrate the ability to model the messaging necessary to implement them

• Transfer knowledge learned from the dynamic model to the class diagrams in the form of operations, attributes, and associations

• Incorporate knowledge learned from the use-case and class diagrams to model the volumetric and loading characteristics of the application through the creation of usage matrices

In our earlier work on the ...