UML Pocket Reference [Paperback]

Dan Pilone (Author)

Book Description

Series: Pocket Reference | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the most important languages for anyone in the software industry to know. The UML is a visual language enabling architects, designers, and developers to communicate about design. Seemingly simple on the surface, the UML is a rich and expressive language, with many visual syntactical elements.

It's next to impossible to memorize all aspects of the UML. Just as a writer might require a dictionary to work with the spoken word, so too do UML practitioners require a dictionary of sorts. In this book, you'll find information on UML usage, and also on the symbols, line-endings, and syntax used for the following diagram types:

• Class diagrams


• Component diagrams
• Behavioral diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Statechart diagrams
• Object diagrams
• Deployment diagrams
• Use case diagrams
• Collaboration diagrams
• Activity diagrams

Let this book be your UML dictionary. It's clear, concise, and small. Keep this book at hand, and never again be stymied by an unfamiliar UML symbol, a line-ending you don't recognize, or the use of an unfamiliar diagram type.

O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you need to get to a solution quickly, the new UML Pocket Reference is the book you'll want to have.

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About the Author

Dan Pilone is Rational Certified in OOAD, RUP, and Rose. His previous employer was a Rational Partner and Dan has taught (formally as well as informally) quite a few UML classes for Hughes, ARINC, UPS, Georgia Systems Operation Center (GSOC), and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). As a software architect for clients, Dan has made extensive use of UML (in all views of the architecture) to help convey information to management, developers, team leads, and requirement folks (doing use case analysis in a UML-like fashion). Dan is also Sun J2EE Enterprise Architect certified, which required him to submit his own EJB designs using UML sequence, class, and collaboration diagrams. Dan has worked at Hughes Inc. developing a satellite communication system for which they did real-time UML modeling, and also large numbers of State Diagrams to model the acquisition/control stages.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596004974
• ISBN-13: 978-0596004972
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,410,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Pilone is the founder of Element 84, a consulting and custom software development company. He has designed and implemented systems for NASA, Hughes, ARINC, UPS, and the Naval Research Laboratory. He has taught project management, software design, and software engineering at The Catholic University in Washington D.C. Dan has written several books on software development, including Head First iPhone Development, Head First Software Development, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell (0-596-00795-7) and UML 2.0 Pocket Reference (0-596-10208-9).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Current, June 26, 2005

By 

Russell Johnson "Russ" (Memphis, TN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: UML Pocket Reference (Paperback)

I agree with the reviews that praised this book a couple of years ago. It is just as good as other O'Reilly quick reference books, but the standard has changed to UML 2.0 and you might want to consider that strongly when you make a purchase. UML 2.0 is not covered in this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reference guide to own!, September 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: UML Pocket Reference (Paperback)

Design plays a quintessential role in the software development life cycle. Pilone provides a well-structured succinct account of proper conventions for UML. The text is well organized and will allow a programmer to quickly find the proper format for their UML diagrams. Following the text will give anyone's design documentation a professional edge.

Moreover, Pilone gives attention to use case documentation. He describes a higher level of design then UML. Thus he lays out a more efficient way to conduct the software development life cycle: first, creating use case documentation, secondly construct class diagrams, thirdly designing sequence and behavior diagrams. Attention to the design process produces more efficient-less buggy code.

The book is designed to be a `dictionary' of UML terms and techniques that can easily be used in a classroom environment in addition to a standard object oriented language textbook. Though extremely informative, the text is only a pocket reference and should not stand by itself. The book is essential to any student or seasoned programmer to be used as a `pocket reference' guide.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful reference book, December 7, 2003

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ueberhund "ueberhund" (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: UML Pocket Reference (Paperback)

Like O'Reilly's other Pocket Reference books, this book is designed as a quick reference with an ultimate goal of making the reader as productive as possible. It is really useful for people with knowledge of UML but need a quick refresher.

I found it to not only be a very quick read, but a good reference on UML syntax and usage. The book is divided up into sections, which cover the various UML diagrams you might encounter. The brief discussion in each section will quickly bring the reader up to speed.

Again, if you are already familiar with UML and need a sort of quick reference book, then I would recommend this as an addition to your library. If you are looking for a more thorough UML explanation or are not as comfortable with it as you would like to be, I would recommend a more involved book, like O'Reilly's Learning UML.