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The Unified Modeling Language User Guide (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) (Hardcover)

by Grady Booch (Author), James Rumbaugh (Author), Ivar Jacobson (Author)

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One of the most important recent developments in software engineering is the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard for documenting software designs. Written by UML's inventors (the so-called Three Amigos of software engineering), The Unified Modeling Language User Guide provides a very appealing guide to all the fundamentals of using UML effectively. The book opens with a basic tour of the essential concepts and modeling diagrams used in UML, including class diagrams, use case diagrams, and basic modeling principles. The authors pay close attention to modeling classes (and documenting the relationships between classes) as well as use case diagrams (which show how software will be used by various actors in a system). This book mixes in a little software-engineering theory, too, but it makes use of clear examples and actual UML diagrams to illustrate key concepts.

Later in the book, the authors discuss more difficult notational diagrams (such as state diagrams and activity diagrams, which can be used to model behavior in a system). Whatever your background in software engineering, you'll no doubt appreciate the author's clear explanations of basic (and advanced) modeling concepts, as well as the nuts-and-bolts details of today's powerful UML. With its combination of expert modeling advice and excellent detail on the specifics of UML, this book will be absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to use UML for real-world software design. --Richard Dragan

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The "Unified Modeling Language User Guide" is the first of two UML works written by the creators of UML. This book will introduce the core 80% of UML, approaching it in a layered fashion and providing numerous examples of its application. The title is suitable for developers unfamiliar with UML or with modeling in general.

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Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (September 30, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201571684
ISBN-13: 978-0201571684
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches

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4.0 out of 5 stars Ideal for the interested novice, February 26, 2000

By	Tom O Bjorkholm (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

"The Unified Modeling Language User Guide" really starts from the beginning. Apparently the reader is assumed to be totally unfamiliar with object oriented design. The book starts with the very basics, and explains a reasonably complete set of UML. The really advanced and esoteric features are not explained.

Each chapter is written like a good lecture. It starts from the very beginning assuming no previous knowledge of OO. Then one aspect of UML is carefully explained. Every chapter ends with some concluding remarks and "hints and tips". This organization is mostly good, but it adds a lot of repetition to the book.

The language is smooth and easy to read. It might still be a struggle to get read the book simply because of the amount of text (and repetition).

I would recommend this book to the interested novice. However, if you are reasonably familiar with UML, or if you have a solid foundation in object oriented programming, then I would recommend you the combination of "UML Distilled" by Martin Fowler and "The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual" by James Rumbaugh et.al.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not good enough; poor organization, no good examples, June 26, 2000

By	Dave O'Hearn (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

If this were the only UML book in existence, it would deserve 5 stars. It contains a lot of information and a nearly comprehensive list of language features without the dry tone of a reference. But there are better books on the market and this is not the one to spend your $45 on. If you want a comprehensive reference, get the UML reference. If you want an introduction, get UML Distilled.

I purchased this text because the introduction to UML Distilled said that this book would be better if you wanted a really in depth understanding of the UML. Unfortunately, it does not fulfill this role. While it succeeds in catelogging nearly all the features of UML, it has no unified examples. Indeed, all the examples are next to trivial.

The book is not worthless. I read it and worked through some examples from my own experience, and I'm pretty comfortable with UML now. But good examples are something a text like this should provide. To really see the UML in action, I'm going to have to buy another book. I'll keep this one as a reference, but that isn't the purpose it was designed for.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A reader in the Netherlands, January 29, 2001

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I am an UML trainer and have used all three books by the amigos. I shall relate what my students have to say ... The reactions from my students is that the Booch book lacks depth (my students work in embedded systems, workflow, CAD ...), repeats itself and is unsuitable for serious work. Booch's earlier books did have some real applications (for example, the Home Heating System). In particular, his use of state machines was good. Today, they have been scaled down somewhat (they are mostly of the so-called anthroposophic kind and thus useless). Concluding, it is a pity that someone with the wealth of knowledge and background that the author has has not taken the effort to produce something of more value. After all, novice developers look up to the 3 amigos as being the 'gurus' of UML.

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