Amazon.co.uk Review
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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From the Publisher
A revolutionary new book from Peter Coad and Eric Lefevre which, for the first time ever, uses color as part of a modeling and design methodology. Coad and Lefevre build ready-to-use templaates and models in Java which can be applied across the key business activities in a number of industries, from banking to retail. The unique color-coding concept adds a level of understandability and impact to object modeling which has heretofore never been tapped.
CONTENTS
1. Archetypes, Color, and the Domain-Neutral Component.
Archetypes. Color. The Four Archetypes in Color. Given a Class, What's the Color, What's the Archetype? The Domain-Neutral Component. Interactions Within the Domain-Neutral Component. Component Connectivity. Twelve Compound Components. Suggested Reading Paths. Summary.
2. Make or Buy.
Material-Resource Management. Facility Management. Manufacturing Management. Inventory Management.
3. Sell.
Product-Sale Management. Cash-Sale Management. Customer-Account Management.
4. Relate.
Human Resource Management. Relationship Management.
5. Coordinate and Support.
Project-Activity Management. Accounting Management. Document Management.
6. Feature-Driven Development.
The Problem: Accommodating Shorter and Shorter Business Cycles. The Solution: Feature-Driven Development. Defining Feature Sets and Features. Establishing a Process: Why and How. The Five Processes within FDD. Chief Programmers, Class Owners, and Feature Teams. Tracking Progress with Precision. Summary and Conclusion.
Appendix A: Archetypes in color. Appendix B: modeling tips. Appendix C: Notation. Index.
From the Author
Peter Coad here. Thank you for your interest in "Java Modeing in Color". I hope this book might be the beginning of an on-going relationship with you. To that end, please visit http://www.oi.com and join The Coad Letter list, featuring new advances in modeling and design. PC
From the Back Cover
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Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process is the first book to teach software design in color. Coad and his co-authors use four colors to represent four archetypes-little forms that appear again and again in effective component and object models. Given a color, you'll know the kind of attributes, links, methods, and interactions that particular class is likely to have. You develop little color building blocks that will help you build better models and get the recognition you deserve.
Color and archetypes are only the beginning. Coad and his co-authors go further, plugging those archetypes into a 12-class, domain-neutral component. Every model Coad has built over the past decade follows the basic shape and responsibilities expressed in this one component.
Coad and his co-authors go even further, taking the domain-neutral component and applying it in a wide variety of business areas. So you end up with specific examples for your business, examples you can relate to, readily understand, and benefit from. Java Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process delivers 61 components, 283 classes, 46 interfaces, 671 attributes, 1139 methods, and 65 interaction sequences.
On top of all of this, Coad, Lefebvre, and De Luca present Feature-Driven Development (FDD), the process for getting the most out of your Java modeling and development, delivering frequent, tangible, working results on time and within budget.
“This book brings a new dimension to the effective use of the UML, by showing you how to apply archetypes in color to enrich the content of your models.—Grady Booch, Chief Scientist, Rational Software Corporation
“I went for a job interview. The interviewer asked me to model a payroll system and gave me an hour to work it out while he observed. So I built a model using pink moment-intervals, yellow roles, green things, and blue descriptions-classes, attributes, links, methods, interactions. After 25 minutes the interviewer stopped me, saying I had already gone well beyond what others struggle to do in a full hour! So my recommendation is: read this book! It's made a better modeler out of me and I'm sure it will do the same for you.” —David Anderson, Modeler and Designer, www.uidesign.net
The CD includes all of the component models and skeletal Java source code in the book, along with Together/J Whiteboard Edition for modeling in color. www.togetherj.com
About the Author
Peter Coad is one of the world's most experienced model-builders, having created hundreds of models in nearly every industry. His company, Object International, delivers workshops, mentoring, and software.
>Eric Lefebvre has spent many years developing enterprise-wide generic models, and developing methods, techniques, and tools for reusing them. He is Director of Research at Progestic Software in Montreal, Canada.
Jeff De Luca's IT consulting practice, Nebulon Pty Ltd., specializes in enterprise-wide and system-wide architecture and Java development.
