UML Distilled A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language

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ISBN: 9780321193681 | 0321193687
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Copyright: 9/15/2003

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bull; The best-selling UML book on the market, thoroughly revised and updated bull; More pearls of wisdom from Martin Fowler, one the foremost names in the field of object technology bull; Introduces the concept of modelling, stresses the importance of software process, and discusses the most essential parts of the UM

List of Figures	p. xvii
Foreword to the Third Edition	p. xxi
Foreword to the First Edition	p. xxiii
Preface	p. xxv
Why Bother with the UML?	p. xxvi
Structure of the Book	p. xxvii
Changes for the Third Edition	p. xxvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxviii
Introduction	p. 1
What Is the UML?	p. 1
Ways of Using the UML	p. 2
How We Got to the UML	p. 7
Notations and Meta-Models	p. 9
UML Diagrams	p. 10
What Is Legal UML?	p. 13
The Meaning of UML	p. 14
UML Is Not Enough	p. 14
Where to Start with the UML	p. 16
Where to Find Out More	p. 16
Development Process	p. 19
Iterative and Waterfall Processes	p. 19
Predictive and Adaptive Planning	p. 23
Agile Processes	p. 24
Rational Unified Process	p. 25
Fitting a Process to a Project	p. 26
Fitting the UML into a Process	p. 29
Requirements Analysis	p. 29
Design	p. 30
Documentation	p. 31
Understanding Legacy Code	p. 32
Choosing a Development Process	p. 33
Where to Find Out More	p. 33
Class Diagrams: The Essentials	p. 35
Properties	p. 35
Attributes	p. 36
Associations	p. 37
Multiplicity	p. 38
Programming Interpretation of Properties	p. 39
Bidirectional Associations	p. 41
Operations	p. 43
Generalization	p. 45
Notes and Comments	p. 46
Dependency	p. 47
Constraint Rules	p. 49
When to Use Class Diagrams	p. 51
Where to Find Out More	p. 52
Sequence Diagrams	p. 53
Creating and Deleting Participants	p. 56
Loops, Conditionals, and the Like	p. 57
Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls	p. 61
When to Use Sequence Diagrams	p. 61
Class Diagrams: Advanced Concepts	p. 65
Keywords	p. 65
Responsibilities	p. 66
Static Operations and Attributes	p. 66
Aggregation and Composition	p. 67
Derived Properties	p. 68
Interfaces and Abstract Classes	p. 69
Read-Only and Frozen	p. 72
Reference Objects and Value Objects	p. 73
Qualified Associations	p. 74
Classification and Generalization	p. 75
Multiple and Dynamic Classification	p. 76
Association Class	p. 78
Template (Parameterized) Class	p. 81
Enumerations	p. 82
Active Class	p. 83
Visibility	p. 83
Messages	p. 84
Object Diagrams	p. 87
When to Use Object Diagrams	p. 87
Package Diagrams	p. 89
Packages and Dependencies	p. 91
Package Aspects	p. 93
Implementing Packages	p. 94
When to Use Package Diagrams	p. 95
Where to Find Out More	p. 95
Deployment Diagrams	p. 97
When to Use Deployment Diagrams	p. 98
Use Cases	p. 99
Content of a Use Case	p. 100
Use Case Diagrams	p. 102
Levels of Use Cases	p. 103
Use Cases and Features (or Stories)	p. 104
When to Use Use Cases	p. 104
Where to Find Out More	p. 105
State Machine Diagrams	p. 107
Internal Activities	p. 109
Activity States	p. 109
Superstates	p. 110
Concurrent States	p. 111
Implementing State Diagrams	p. 111
When to Use State Diagrams	p. 114
Where to Find Out More	p. 115
Activity Diagrams	p. 117
Decomposing an Action	p. 119
Partitions	p. 120
Signals	p. 121
Tokens	p. 124
Flows and Edges	p. 124
Pins and Transformations	p. 125
Expansion Regions	p. 126
Flow Final	p. 127
Join Specifications	p. 128
And There's More	p. 129
When to Use Activity Diagrams	p. 129
Where to Find Out More	p. 130
Communication Diagrams	p. 131
When to Use Communication Diagrams	p. 133
Composite Structures	p. 135
When to Use Composite Structures	p. 137
Component Diagrams	p. 139
When to Use Component Diagrams	p. 141
Collaborations	p. 143
When to Use Collaborations	p. 146
Interaction Overview Diagrams	p. 147
When to Use Interaction Overview Diagrams	p. 147
Timing Diagrams	p. 149
When to Use Timing Diagrams	p. 150
Changes between UML Versions	p. 151
Revisions to the UML	p. 151
Changes in UML Distilled	p. 152
Changes from UML 1.0 to 1.1	p. 153
Type and Implementation Class	p. 153
Complete and Incomplete Discriminator Constraints	p. 154
Composition	p. 154
Immutability and Frozen	p. 154
Returns on Sequence Diagrams	p. 154
Use of the Term "Role"	p. 155
Changes from UML 1.2 (and 1.1) to 1.3 (and 1.5)	p. 155
Use Cases	p. 155
Activity Diagrams	p. 156
Changes from UML 1.3 to 1.4	p. 157
Changes from UML 1.4. to 1.5	p. 157
From UML 1.x to UML 2.0	p. 157
Class Diagrams: The Essentials (Chapter 3)	p. 158
Sequence Diagrams (Chapter 4)	p. 158
Class Diagrams: Concepts (Chapter 5)	p. 158
State Machine Diagrams (Chapter 10)	p. 159
Activity Diagrams (Chapter 11)	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 167
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