- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (7 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201615770
- ISBN-13: 978-0201615777
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #69 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Languages > Java > Web Services
- #77 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Databases > Java & Databases
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Universal Modelling Language (UML) is a flexible and comprehensive way to design and diagram any software development project. Building Web Applications with UML covers the Web Application Extension (WAE) for UML and includes enough background information about Web applications to ease traditional software analysts and designers into the world of the Web.
Author Jim Conallen divides the text into two logical parts, the first being dedicated to explaining the various Web application architectures out there and the second to the process of modelling such systems with UML. The first chapter concisely explains the basics of the standard elements of the Web such as HTML, HTTP, forms, frames, and session management. Subsequent chapters provide an excellent overview to server-side and client-side functionality, delving into key technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP), Java applets, and XML.
The remainder of the book is devoted to the process of defining the requirements, architecture and design elements of Web applications using UML. The reader will learn about Use Cases, apply analysis and represent Web applications with the distinctive graphical elements of UML. A sample ASP application is used to illustrate the concepts. This material may be a level of abstraction above the working coder but is excellent for project managers and system architects. --Stephen W Plain, Amazon.com
Topics covered: Browser/Server interactions, Web page design elements, session management, dynamic client and server languages, Web security, model design, use cases, requirement specifications, analysis, sequence diagrams and class diagrams.
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Building Web Applications with UML is a guide to building robust, scalable, and feature-rich web applications using proven object-oriented techniques. Written for the project manager, architect, analyst, designer, and programmer of web applications, this book examines the unique aspects of modeling web applications with the Web Application Extension (WAE) for the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The UML has been widely accepted as the standard modeling language for software systems, and as a result is often the best option for modeling web application designs. The WAE extends the UML notation with semantics and constraints enabling developers to model web-specific architectural elements using the Rational Unified Process or an alternative methodology. Using UML allows developers to model their web applications as a part of the complete system and the business logic that must be reflected in the application. Readers will gain not only an understanding of the modeling process, but also the ability to map models directly into code. Key topics include: *A basic introduction to web servers, browsers, HTTP, and HTML *Gathering requirements and defining the system's use cases *Transforming requirements into a model and then a design that maps directly into components of the system *Defining the architecture of a web application with an examination of three architectural patterns describing architectures for thin web client, thick web client, and web delivery designs *Modeling, at the appropriate level of abstraction and detail, the appropriate artifacts, including web application pages, page relationships, navigate routes, client-side scripts, and server-side generation *Creating code from UML models using ASP and VBScript *Client-side scripting using DHTML, Java Script, VBScript, Applets, ActiveX controls, and DOM *Using client/server protocols including DCOM, CORBA/IIOP, and Java's RMI *Securing a web application with SET, SSL, PGP, Certificates, and Certificate Authorities 0201615770B04062001
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay, but should be a lot shorter,
By A Customer
This review is from: Building Web Applications with UML (Object Technology Series) (Paperback)
This book is based upon the authors white paper, found on Rationals site, and it shows. The first half of the book is a complete waste of time, it summarises web technologies. If I wished to know about them, I would look into a dedicated book. If the first part is of any use to me, how on earth could I model something if I understand it so poorly, and if I do understand it, it's useless.The second half explains how to model web pages, and is admittedly very useful, however the Whitepaper on Rationals site, covers much of the same information. Admittedly the bookl is more up to date, and slightly different, and what Rational would (I reckon) recommend, so it is probably necessary. It gives complete examples in the appendices which are useful, as many books on these sort of things, tend to avoid getting into anything resembling a useful example. Basically the first half of the book is padding, because people don't like buying thin books. But the last half is good. If you need to model web pages, it's the only book I currently know about, and it *does* do the job well, when it gets round to it, so get it. By the way, on the front cover it says 'Foreword by Grady Booch', I guess they must print this as standard, as the book doesn't even *have* a foreword. What a bunch of plonkers!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very good starter and intermediate web app design book,
This review is from: Building Web Applications with UML (Object Technology Series) (Paperback)
The book is in two parts. The first gives a good general round-up of existing technologies and applications. Part two gives a thorough and for me, enjoyable run-through of the most important aspects of UML, namely "Use cases" and "Sequence diagrams". I thought particularly good, the examples and the extensions for modelling client side. Client side modelling is difficult with all the different components, but this has helped me a lot. There is a foreword by Grady Booch on p.xvii
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Defence,
This review is from: Building Web Applications with UML (Object Technology Series) (Paperback)
I haven't finished the book yet but it (my copy at least) does have a forward by Grady Booch. The first 5 chapters set the scene, reviewing web technologies and their significance from a model(l)ing point of view. Not everyone who might be called upon to model some aspect of a web site (or learn how) is an expert on every technology. This is less than a third of the book, anyway. The book then covers process issues, which I'm finding useful and relevant. Finally, the unique selling point: the Web Application Extension for UML - the vital connection between the standard modeling language and one of its most important applications. I find Conallen's style readable and the book well-structured.
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