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Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2, Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects
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Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2, Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects

by Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann
September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
16h 1m
English
Wiley
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Notations

Class-Responsibility-Collaborator Cards

Class-Responsibility-Collaborators (CRC) cards [BeCu89] help to identify and specify objects or the components of an application in an informal way, especially in the early phases of software development.

A CRC-card describes a component, an object, or a class of objects. The card consists of three fields that describe the name of the component, its responsibilities, and the names of other collaborating components. The use of the term ‘class’ is historical [Ree92]—we also use CRC cards for other types of components or even single objects.

UML Class Diagrams

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) [BRJ98] is a widely-used object-oriented analysis and design method. An important type of diagram within UML is the class diagram. A class diagram describes the types of objects in a system and the various types of static relationships that exist among them.

As an extension to the standard UML notation we introduce a symbol to indicate that instances of a class run in separate threads.

Class. A rectangular box, denoting the name of the class and optionally its attributes and operations. Abstract classes names are labeled in italics along with their corresponding abstract methods.

Operation. Operation names are written in the class boxes. ...

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