Now widely adopted as the de facto industry standard and sanctioned by the Object Management Group, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a notation all software developers need to know and understand. However, the UML is comprehensive in scope, and not all of it is equally important. The award-winning first edition of UML Distilled was widely praised for being a concise guide to the core parts of the UML and has proved extremely successful in helping developers get up and running quickly. UML Distilled, Second Edition, maintains the concise format but adds significantly updated coverage of use cases and activity diagrams, and expanded coverage of collaborations. It also includes a new appendix detailing the changes between UML versions. Written for those with a basic understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, this book begins with a summary of UML's history, development, and rationale; it then moves into a discussion of how the UML can be integrated into the object-oriented development process. The primary author profiles the various modeling techniques in the UML -- such as use cases, class diagrams, and interaction diagrams -- and describes the notation and semantics clearly and succinctly. He also outlines useful non-UML techniques such as CRC cards and patterns. The descriptions are made even more relevant with a colletion of best practices based on the primary author's experience and a brief Java programming example demonstrating the implementation of a UML-based design. With this tour of the key parts of the UML, readers will be left with a firm foundation upon which to build models and develop further knowledge to the Unfied Modeling Language.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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| Kendall Scott | Kendall Scott is a UML consultant and mentor with particular expertise in domain modeling and requirements capture via use case modeling. He is the principal of Software Documentation Wizards. He is also the co-author (with Doug Rosenberg) of Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach, which outlines an efficient, proven, and streamlined approach to software development. |
| Martin Fowler | Martin Fowler is a pioneer in the application of object technolgy to business information systems. For the past twelve years, he has consulted in the area of object technology with such companies as Citibank, Chrysler Corporation, IBM, Andersen Consulting, and Sterling Software. He is the author of the acclaimed Analysis Patterns: Reuseable Object Models. His latest book, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, is a guide written for the professional programmer interesed in improving the internal design of existing code. |
