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 you’ll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. You’ll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as use-case 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 CD-ROM 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.

UML 2 represents a significant update to the UML specification, from providing more robust mechanisms for modelling workflow and actions to making the modelling language more executable. This book provides the reader with all the tools needed for effective modelling with UML 2.

'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 you\'ll need for effective modeling with UML 2. The authors get you up to speed by presenting an overview of UML and its main features. You\'ll then learn how to apply UML to produce effective diagrams as you progress through more advanced topics such as use-case 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 CD-ROM 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.'

Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 represents the largest change to the language since its debut in 1997Complete revision of a bestseller to correspond to the exciting new version of UMLOffers more than sixty percent new material while still retaining the features that readers have enjoyed- Java focus, case studies, visual UML glossaryIncludes in-depth coverage of the problems that UML 2.0 is expected to solve, and is honest about what it still doesn' t doDiscusses design patterns for UMLCD-ROM contains all of the UML models and Java code in the book and related modeling tools, including Visio and Rational Rose

'OMG Press Books in Print.

About the OMG.

2003 OMG Press Advisory Board.

Preface for the Second Edition.

About the Authors.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: What Is UML?

Chapter 2: An Overview of UML.

Chapter 3: Use-Case Modeling.

Chapter 4: Classes, Objects, and Their Relationships.

Chapter 5: Dynamic Modeling.

Chapter 6: Advanced Dynamic Modeling Illustrated by Real-Time Systems.

Chapter 7: Representing Architecture.

Chapter 8: Extending UML.

Chapter 9: Model Driven Architecture.

Chapter 10: A Process for Using UML.

Chapter 11: Case Study.

Appendix A: Visual Glossary.

Appendix B: Glossary.

Appendix C: References.

Appendix D: What’s on the CD-ROM?

Index.

End-User License Agreement.

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