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Later in the book, the authors discuss more difficult notational diagrams (such as state diagrams and activity diagrams, which can be used to model behaviour in a system). Whatever your background in software engineering, you'll no doubt appreciate the author's clear explanations of basic (and advanced) modelling concepts, as well as the nuts-and-bolts details of today's powerful UML. With its combination of expert modelling advice and excellent detail on the specifics of UML, this book will be absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to use UML for real- world software design. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability. Its inherent expressiveness allows users to model everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems.
In this eagerly anticipated revision of the best-selling and definitive guide to the use of the UML, the creators of the language provide a tutorial to its core aspects in a two-color format designed to facilitate learning. Starting with an overview of the UML, the book explains the language gradually by introducing a few concepts and notations in each chapter. It also illustrates the application of the UML to complex modeling problems across a variety of application domains. The in-depth coverage and example-driven approach that made the first edition of The Unified Modeling Language User Guide an indispensable resource remain unchanged. However, content has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes to notation and usage required by UML 2.0.
Highlights include:
- A new chapter on components and internal structure, including significant new capabilities for building encapsulated designs
- New details and updated coverage of provided and required interfaces, collaborations, and UML profiles
- Additions and changes to discussions of sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and more
- Coverage of many other changes introduced by the UML 2.0 specification
With this essential guide, you will quickly get up to speed on the latest features of the industry standard modeling language and be able to apply them to your next software project.
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If you are going to use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) in your projects, this book should be on your desk if only because (a) it is based on the latest version of UML (version 1.3) and (b) it is very readable. But beyond these recommendations it has great value for newbies as well as experienced modelers.
Each chapter of the book has the same structure. "Getting Started" motivates the objectives and discussion of the chapter in non-technical terms. Then "Terms and Concepts" introduces the notation and terminology covered in the chapter. "Common Modeling Techniques" allow the authors to show how the concepts and notation are applied to specific modeling areas. Finally, each chapter ends with "Hints and Tips" such as the characteristics of a well-structured statechart, or how to use stereotyping to visually convey the intent of a relationship.
The layout of the notation examples is excellent if you want to use this book as a way of learning UML, although it is not strictly a tutorial on UML. Annotations on the notation examples are printed in blue color, which makes the notation diagrams very easy to understand. References to other sections of the book are also in blue in the margins of the pages, and the color separation keeps the pages from feeling cluttered.
Topically, the book progresses from basic and advanced structural modeling (primarily class and object diagrams), to basic and advanced behavioral modeling (i.e., interaction diagrams, statechart diagrams, use cases and use case diagrams, and activity diagrams). A lengthy section on Architectural modeling introduces component and deployment diagrams, and how to represent patterns and frameworks.
What you will not find here is the detailed and obtuse discussion of the UML 1.1 Semantics document (www.omg.org). While that one was written for tool vendors, the discussion of what each element of UML means is very accessible in this UML User Guide. My major wish for this book is that the authors had included a "cheat sheet" of the changes introduced from version 1.1 for those readers who have been working with UML for a while. For example, the notation examples show that the '^' to denote a send-clause on a statechart action has been dropped, and the <<include>> stereotype has replaced the <<uses>> stereotype on use cases. Additionally, a generalization relationship has been added between use cases, and the semantics of the <<extend>> stereotype has changed subtly.
Although I do object modeling for a living--and that means I have to read the obtuse UML documents anyway--I am grateful for the accessibility of this book so more people can learn to use this modeling language in their projects. I don't agree with everything in UML, but at least this book will get more people involved in the "spirited discussions." Thanks, Amigos!
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