Book description
Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is a big language, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of UML Distilled was widely praised for being a concise guide to the core parts of the UML and has proved extremely successful in helping developers get up and running quickly. UML Distilled, Second Edition, maintains the concise format with significantly updated coverage of use cases and activity diagrams, and expanded coverage of collaborations. It also includes a new appendix detailing the changes between UML versions.
Written for those with a basic understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, this book begins with a summary of UML's history, development, and rationale and then moves into a discussion of how the UML can be integrated into the object-oriented development process. The primary author profiles the various modeling techniques in the UML--such as use cases, class diagrams, and interaction diagrams--and describes the notation and semantics clearly and succinctly. He also outlines useful non-UML techniques such as CRC cards and patterns. These descriptions are made even more relevant with a collection of best practices based on the primary author's experience and a brief Java programming example demonstrating the implementation of a UML-based design. With this tour of the key parts of the UML, readers will be left with a firm foundation upon which to build models and develop further knowledge of the Unified Modeling Language.
Praise for the First Edition
"UML Distilled is a recipient of the prestigious 1997 Software Development Magazine Productivity Award in the Books category. Addison-Wesley congratulates authors Martin Fowler and Kendall Scott for their outstanding work."
"This book is a godsend. It is packed with solid advice
presented in a concise and highly readable way. The essence of the
notations is explained very well indeed but the author goes beyond
this to give very clear insights into the application of UML
techniques."
-- Jennifer Stapleton, Vice President Technical, British Computer
Society
"UML Distilled is well written, knowledgeable about both
systems development and UML, and disarmingly honest."
-- Robert L. Glass, The Software Practitioner (March
1998)
"UML Distilled proves that you can say a lot of useful
things about computing in a small book."
-- Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobb's Journal
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Diagrams
- Preface
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- An Outline Development Process
- Use Cases
- Class Diagrams: The Essentials
- Interaction Diagrams
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Class Diagrams: Advanced Concepts
- Stereotypes
- Object Diagram
- Class Scope Operations and Attributes
- Multiple and Dynamic Classification
- Aggregation and Composition
- Derived Associations and Attributes
- Interfaces and Abstract Classes
- Reference Objects and Value Objects
- Collections for Multivalued Association Ends
- Frozen
- Classification and Generalization
- Qualified Associations
- Association Class
- Parameterized Class
- Visibility
- Packages and Collaborations
- State Diagrams
- Activity Diagrams
- Physical Diagrams
- UML and Programming
- Techniques and Their Uses
- Changes between UML Versions
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 1999
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780201657838
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