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Title	Uml in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Nutshell Handbook)
Author(s)	Sinan Si Alhir
ISBN	1565924487
Language	English
Published	October 1998
Publisher	O'Reilly & Associates

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
James Gosling probably didn't intend it that way, but Java has a lot to answer for. It was the "proof of concept" for the theory that if you throw a sufficient number of adjectives at a new technology it becomes worthwhile. Why else would we be told that UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a "general-purpose, broadly applicable, tool- supported, industry-standardized modeling language?" Part one introduces UML. Chapter one presents some basics, including a history and a description of standards documentation. Interestingly, while the preface claims all of technology as the field for UML, the history makes it clear that the language arose from object-oriented methodology, and makes the case for UML both more limited and clearer: UML may be to object programming what flowcharting was to procedural programming. The business cycle manage-babble in chapter two does not help much, but the few clear sections do reinforce the object-oriented origins. Using a more strictly object programming terminology, this view is strengthened again with greater clarity in chapter three. Part two looks at the use of UML. Chapter four is a tutorial. It suffers from the eagerness of the author to both get right into the tools without laying groundwork first, and a continued propensity to try to be as general as possible in order to prove the UML can be used for anything. In this case, the objectives of the system to be modelled are not defined in advance, and so the diagrams and explanations are not very enlightening: are we talking about people? processes? programs? functions? An overview of the architecture and structures of UML is given in chapter five. Part three presents the reference material that forms the backbone of the Nutshell series books. Chapters six through thirteen explain the diagramming and model organization, class and object diagrams, use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams, statechart diagrams, activity diagrams, component diagrams, deployment diagrams, extension mechanisms (for expanding the language), and the object constraint language (OCL). While slightly marred by a tendency to oversell, this is a serviceable reference for those using UML. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1998
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