Guide to Applying the UML

by Sinan Si Alhir

Overview

Guide to Successfully Applying the UML offers a tool-independent and process-independent roadmap for successfully applying the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The UML is a modeling language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a system-intensive process. It was originally conceived by Rational Software Corporation and three of the most prominent methodologists in the information systems and technology industry: Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson. The language has gained significant industry support from various organizations via the UML Partners Consortium and has been submitted to and approved by the Object Management Group as a standard.

This book works in concordance with references to offer a suite of practical real-world examples to help novice and expert users of the UML to understand the whole language (holistically and cohesively), including rules of usage and principles of composition, style guidelines, and a roadmap for successfully applying the UML. The examples are presented in a "fairly intuitive/evolutionary" manner that demonstrate the key concepts of the UML and help readers explore the wide range of uses of the UML.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387952093
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/01/2002
Series:	Springer Professional Computing
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

to the Unified Modeling Language (UML).- Modeling.- Object Orientation.- The Roadmap.- Use-Case (User) Modeling.- Structural (Static) Modeling.- Behavioral (Dynamic) Modeling.- Component (Implementation) Modeling.- Deployment (Environment) Modeling.- Extension Mechanisms.- The Object Constraint Language (OCL).

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a method for depicting complex object-oriented systems in a way that is clear, complete, and allows future software engineers to understand and modify it. This book's goal is to teach users how to apply UML so that they may make the best use of it in project design and development, and it does an outstanding job.

Sinan Si Alhir begins with an introduction to the Unified Modeling Language and its history. Chapter 2 takes up the subject of modeling, going from language through systems and modeling mechanisms to processes and methodologies. Next, Chapter 3 is dedicated to object orientation, while the fourth chapter discusses the road map, both general and detailed, and how to apply it. Chapter 5 discusses use-case diagrams and how to use them. Then, Chapter 6 covers structural modeling, and Chapter 7, behavioral modeling -- going from sequence diagrams through collaboration plus state and activity diagrams and how to apply them. After Chapter 8 addresses component modeling, Chapter 9 takes a look at deployment modeling, and Chapter 10 introduces UML's extension mechanisms. Finally, Chapter 11 introduces the Object Constraint Language (OCL).

This excellent book teaches the use of a language that deals effectively with communicating complex ideas and situations. Skill in applying UML is invaluable for anyone who is involved in developing projects, analyzing processes, or documenting existing systems of any kind. This book will let you build that skill and help you make good use of it. John Vacca

John Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written 38 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

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