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Gain the skills to effectively plan software applications and systems using the latest version of UML
UML 2 represents a significant update to the UML specification, from providing more robust mechanisms for modeling workflow and actions to making the modeling language more executable. Now in its second edition, this bestselling book provides you with all the tools youll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. Youll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as usecase diagrams, classes and their relationships, dynamic diagrams, system architecture, and extending UML. The authors take you through the process of modeling with UML so that you can successfully deliver a software product or information management system.
With the help of numerous examples and an extensive case study, this book teaches you how to:
Organize, describe, assess, test, and realize use cases
Gain substantial information about a system by using classes
Utilize activity diagrams, state machines, and interaction diagrams to handle common issues
Extend UML features for specific environment or domains
Use UML as part of a Model Driven Architecture initiative
Apply an effective process for using UML
The CDROM contains all of the UML models and Java?TM code for a complete application, Java?TM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, Version 1.4.1, and links to the Web sites for vendors of UML 2 tools.
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Unified Modelling Language (UML) 2.0 represents the largest change to the language since its debut in 1997. This toolkit is a complete revision of a bestseller to correspond to the exciting new version of UML. It offers more than sixty percent new material while still retaining the features that readers have enjoyed Java focus, case studies, visual UML glossary. It also includes an in-depth coverage of the problems that UML 2.0 is expected to solve, and is honest about what it still doesn't do. It discusses design patterns for UML. A CD-ROM contains all of the UML models and Java code in the book and related modelling tools, including Visio and Rational Rose.
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