- Textbook Binding: 221 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (15 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 013011510X
- ISBN-13: 978-0130115102
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 20.3 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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- #99 in Books > Computers & Internet > Computer Science > Programming > Languages & Tools > Object Oriented > UML
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The colour-printed Java Modeling in Color with UML provides four UML "archetypes" for common entities in business modelling. These have rather abstract names like the "moment-interval" and are each assigned a different colour in UML. The book uses these four archetypes to model 61 domain-specific business components for manufacturing (including suppliers and inventory control), facilities management, sales, employees and organisations plus accounting and document management.
Similar in spirit to software-design patterns these UML components are catalogued with short prose descriptions and illustrated with UML. The detail here is often impressive although the type is by necessity small. (Fortunately, the CD-ROM contains all these diagrams--including Java source code--for use within your own designs.) The authors--all experts in UML--have done the heavy lifting here. The idea is to incorporate these components within your own projects.
A catalogue of expert components, this book describes the authors' "Feature-Driven Development" (FDD) software-design process. (Although there is one UML standard, design processes still proliferate.) FDD touts good productivity with a minimum of overhead. The authors argue that it can be used productively within today's ever-shorter business cycles.
Overall this book features much more than just colour-enhanced UML. It provides a foundation of UML (and Java classes on the CD-ROM) that can model most business problems. If you design with UML you can surely benefit from this intelligent and visually savvy text. --Richard Dragan
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process (Java Series) (Textbook Binding)
This book is strange in that I can understand the poor ratings it has got and the good ratings. It is like 3 books in one with the middle book being the meat of it. The first book is one chapter on the color and archetypes. This work is fascinating and takes modeling to a new level. Just being introduced to this idea is worthy of 5 stars. The last book is one chapter on process. The ideas presented here are also fascinating, but like the color chapter, it is one chapter only and requires a few reads for it all to sink in. The material and ideas presented are really deep, but are well worth the effort to understand and then learn. This really feels like breakthrough work. The middle chapters are numerous models for different domains using the color and archetypes from chapter one. This is like reference material.This book is at least 3 books in one. If you are a serious modeler or process person, you must have this book. If you are one of the many who just get by in computing, you'll not understand it and write a very negative review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Demonstrative of Good Design Practices and Mechanisms,
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This review is from: Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process (Java Series) (Textbook Binding)
I think this book shows a very novel way of approaching OO Design work. In teaching OO design at the consulting firm for which I work, I am always looking for good books to point the students at. This one does a fine job of teaching good design practices and shows novel methods for easily determining a class' purpose when a developer glances at a UML diagram. This book, when used in conjunction with the patterns books by Mr. Coad, and the Gang of Four, can help bring a novice OO designer up to speed very quickly.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Over promise and under deliver.,
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This review is from: Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process (Java Series) (Textbook Binding)
This book has a high school flavor in a number of ways. First, the book uses a large font and extra wide margins. It has large colorful icons to make sure you are aware of tips or points of interest (sometimes 3 or 4 on a page). I guess having a tip's paragraph start with "Tip." in bold font isn't enough for most people to notice. (The book uses a very small font to list the method names and attributes in the diagrams, so you have to squint to read those. ) Second, and much more disturbing, is that many of the sentences read like they were written by high school students. There are plenty of sentences that aren't sentences, they ramble on referencing 3 or 4 items and quite often each item has an explanation in parenthesis after it, or there is a qualifying exception phrase thrown in to qualify something that has been mention previously, so it difficult to follow what the author is trying to say - kind of like this one. Third, there are meaningless comments from Aerosmith like "Pink is my favorite crayon". Need I say more? Finally, the author uses several pages to point out that color coding makes things stand out. He even admits that someone had to point this out to him! I read the first two chapters and found myself rereading sentences and explanation over and over trying to decide what the author was trying to say. The explanations are not insightful and the UML is not explained. One final comment: How is it that the first "customer" review listed below, which rates this book a rediculous 5 stars, ended up on the back cover of the book?
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