EJB™ 2.1 Kick Start

Appendix A. Introduction to UML for Analysis and Design

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Models and Diagrams

• Documenting Analysis with Use Cases and Scenario Diagrams

• Class Diagrams

Designing software and implementing those designs are two different things altogether, and they require different tools, paradigms, and mindsets to pull them off correctly. Developers have a wondrous array of tools for implementing designs. Armed with a Java JDK, the EJB specification, and an integrated development environment (I am fond of Borland JBuilder), they can whip out well-structured code at a furious pace. Trying to design systems with these same tools and specifications, however, just doesn’t work. Java is a language for imparting implementation information to a java compiler, ...