Instant UML

What is the Subject Area?

UML is the result of a collaboration between Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson (the Three Amigos), all of whom now work for Rational Software, and the response to the confusing proliferation of modeling languages that had been in use before UML was created. It combines the best features of all those earlier languages (notably Booch, OMT and OOSE) and adds new feature of its own, culminating in a specification that has the support of Microsoft, IBM and Novell, among others. Version 1.1 is now in the hands of OMG (the Object Management Group), with ratification expected before the end of the year.

What's Great About this Book?

• Relevant to programmers of C++, VB, Java and other OO-capable languages
• Written by a leading authority on UML
• Hundreds of diagrams illustrating UML in practice
• Part of the move by PC developers to professional techniques
• Consolidates the learning with a practical UML example

Who is this Book for?

• Programmers in all OO languages, given that UML is the rallying point of the movement towards a complete approach for object-oriented analysis, design, and implementation.
• Users of Visual Modeler (which comes with the Enterprise Edition of Microsoft's Visual Studio) which is a very lightweight tool that serves as an introduction to modeling.
• Novice users of Rational Rose and similar UML compliant tools.

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