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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition
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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2nd Edition

by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 59m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 21

Events and Signals

In the real world, things happen. Not only do things happen, but lots of things may happen at the same time, and at the most unexpected times. “Things that happen” are called events, and each one represents the specification of a significant occurrence that has a location in time and space.

In the context of state machines, you use events to model the occurrence of a stimulus that can trigger a state transition. Events may include signals, calls, the passing of time, or a change in state.

Events may be synchronous or asynchronous, so modeling ...

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