Learning UML 2.0: A Pragmatic Introduction to UML

Russ Miles · Kim Hamilton

Apr 2006 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

"Since its original introduction in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language has revolutionized software development. Every integrated software development environment in the world--open-source, standards-based, and proprietary--now supports UML and, more importantly, the model-driven approach to software development. This makes learning the newest UML standard, UML 2.0, critical for all software developers--and there isn't a better choice than this clear, step-by-step guide to learning the language."
--Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO, OMG

If you're like most software developers, you're building systems that are increasingly complex. Whether you're creating a desktop application or an enterprise system, complexity is the big hairy monster you must manage.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) helps you manage this complexity. Whether you're looking to use UML as a blueprint language, a sketch tool, or as a programming language, this book will give you the need-to-know information on how to apply UML to your project. While there are plenty of books available that describe UML, Learning UML 2.0 will show you how to use it. Topics covered include:

• Capturing your system's requirements in your model to help you ensure that your designs meet your users' needs



• Modeling the parts of your system and their relationships



• Modeling how the parts of your system work together to meet your system's requirements



• Modeling how your system moves into the real world, capturing how your system will be deployed

Engaging and accessible, this book shows you how to use UML to craft and communicate your project's design. Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton have written a pragmatic introduction to UML based on hard-earned practice, not theory. Regardless of the software process or methodology you use, this book is the one source you need to get up and running with UML 2.0.

Russ Miles is a software engineer for General Dynamics UK, where he works with Java and Distributed Systems, although his passion at the moment is Aspect Orientation and, in particular, AspectJ. Kim Hamilton is a senior software engineer at Northrop Grumman, where she's designed and implemented a variety of systems including web applications and distributed systems, with frequent detours into algorithms development.

Ratings and reviews

This book is not up to the standard. UML 2 specification says that the State Machine diagrams always have triggers in their transitions between states, but this book uses guards without any triggers. This is wrong.

I have read quite a few books on use cases from the business analyst perspective. There are many books that provide good tips for useful requirements gathering, however most that I have read focus on the process and gloss over the documentation. This book is a great tool to go in depth with UML and developing good use cases capable of driving development efforts. I highly recommend it.

A good entry to step into design pattern world.