Bookpool: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide

For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability. Its inherent expressiveness allows users to model everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems.

In this eagerly anticipated revision of the best-selling and definitive guide to the use of the UML, the creators of the language provide a tutorial to its core aspects in a two-color format designed to facilitate learning. Starting with an overview of the UML, the book explains the language gradually by introducing a few concepts and notations in each chapter. It also illustrates the application of the UML to complex modeling problems across a variety of application domains. The in-depth coverage and example-driven approach that made the first edition of The Unified Modeling Language User Guide an indispensable resource remain unchanged. However, content has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes to notation and usage required by UML 2.0.

Highlights include:

A new chapter on components and internal structure, including significant new capabilities for building encapsulated designs
New details and updated coverage of provided and required interfaces, collaborations, and UML profiles
Additions and changes to discussions of sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and more
Coverage of many other changes introduced by the UML 2.0 specification

With this essential guide, you will quickly get up to speed on the latest features of the industry standard modeling language and be able to apply them to your next software project.

Grady Booch, is the Chief Scientist at Rational Software Corporation anddeveloper of the Booch Method of object-oriented analysis and design. He isalso co-developer of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Widelyrecognized for these and many contributions in the field, he is a popularspeaker at technology conferences around the world. Booch has twicereceived Software Development magazine's coveted Jolt-Cola ProductExcellence Award for his seminal text, Object-Oriented Analysis and Designwith Applications.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Part 1: Getting Started 1

Chapter 1: Why We Model 3

Chapter 2: Introducing the UML 13

Chapter 3: Hello, World! 37

Part 2: Basic Structural Modeling 45

Chapter 4: Classes 47

Chapter 5: Relationships 61

Chapter 6: Common Mechanisms 75

Chapter 7: Diagrams 89

Chapter 8: Class Diagrams 103

Part 3: Advanced Structural Modeling 115

Chapter 9: Advanced Classes 117

Chapter 10: Advanced Relationships 133

Chapter 11: Interfaces, Types, and Roles 151

Chapter 12: Packages 163

Chapter 13: Instances 175

Chapter 14: Object Diagrams 185

Chapter 15: Components 193

Part 4: Basic Behavioral Modeling 207

Chapter 16: Interactions 209

Chapter 17: Use Cases 225

Chapter 18: Use Case Diagrams 239

Chapter 19: Interaction Diagrams 249

Chapter 20: Activity Diagrams 267

Part 5: Advanced Behavioral Modeling 285

Chapter 21: Events and Signals 287

Chapter 22: State Machines 297

Chapter 23: Processes and Threads 319

Chapter 24: Time and Space 331

Chapter 25: State Diagrams 339

Part 6: Architectural Modeling 349

Chapter 26: Artifacts 351

Chapter 27: Deployment 361

Chapter 28: Collaborations 369

Chapter 29: Patterns and Frameworks 383

Chapter 30: Artifact Diagrams 395

Chapter 31: Deployment Diagrams 409

Chapter 32: Systems and Models 421

Part 7: Wrapping Up 431

Chapter 33: Applying the UML 433

Appendix A: UML Notation 437

Appendix B: Rational Unified Process 443

Glossary 451

Index 463