Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications: Amazon.ca: Peter Coad, David North, Mark Mayfield: Books

Product Description

Book Description

This book gives object programmers the latest information on getting faster, better results with strategies and templates. This book delivers up-to-the-minute guidance on object modeling, from three of the world's leading experts. It presents 177 strategies and 31 patterns (templates) for achieving the best possible results with object modeling in all three leading methodologies, Coad, OMT and Unified.
Features and Benefits

Covers the three leading object modeling notations, Coad, OMT and the important new Unified (Booch-Rumbaugh) methodology.
Presents 177 state-of-the-art strategies and 31 patterns for object model development.
By the worlds leading experts in object-oriented modeling.

From the Publisher

This new edition of a best-seller gives object programmers the latest information on getting faster, better results with strategies and templates. Object Models: Strategies, Patterns and Applications delivers up-to-the-minute guidance on object modeling, from three of the world's leading experts. This book presents 177 strategies and 31 patterns (templates) for achieving the best possible results with object modeling in all three leading methodologies: Coad, OMT and Unified. This new second edition includes 29 new strategies, including: using feature milestones to deliver results more quickly; extracting useful content from data models; using patterns to discover new features, separating definition from usage; when to use -- or not use -- inheritance; how to decide whether you need an attribute or something more; and why you should nearly always ask for more than a data value. It will be invaluable to any object-oriented programmer interested in object modeling.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

Customer Reviews

6 Reviews

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.8 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A Quantity of Strategies and Patterns, Jun 18 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications (Paperback)

Shows you how to create object models (analysis models) through indepth examples and guidance by presenting strategies and patterns as you need them as you work through the examples. The strategies tell you how to approach a task such as how to select objects. Strategies are short, focused. For example, a strategy may have three or four one-sentence things to do to accomplish a goal. The patterns present template objects and their typical interactions.

The examples are relevant to business analysts.

After working through even just one example, you will be able to create object models and using the strategies and patterns.

Includes reference section containing all of the strategies and patterns.

The book uses COAD notation to present the examples, so for people familiar with UML it takes a little getting used to.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn by Example, Feb 14 2001

By

Radha Murali Vundavalli (Shelton, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications (Paperback)

The strategies and patterns mentioned in the book are really helpful. They improve the object think. The examples explain the author's point of view clearly. This book complements other books in OOAD and patterns by Craig Larmen, GoF, Martin Fowler etc.

One interesting point is that the author shows how same strategy or pattern helps in design in various problems. Many authors do not do this. For beginners, it is often difficult to grasp a strategy or pattern with just one example.

One drawback is it uses UML notation very less. But Coad notation is simple and we can easily grasp to understand the diagrams in the book. If you want to learn from solid examples, this is a good choice. If you are very new to OOAD, this is not the one to start with.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn by Example, Feb 14 2001

By

Radha Murali Vundavalli (Shelton, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications (Paperback)

The strategies and patterns mentioned in the book are really helpful. They improve the object think. The examples explain the author's point of view clearly. This book complements other books in OOAD and patterns by Craig Larmen, GoF, Martin Fowler etc.

One interesting point is that the author shows how same strategy or pattern helps in design in various problems. Most of the books do not show this. For beginners, it is often difficult to grasp a strategy or pattern with just one example.

One drawback is it uses UML notation very less. But Coad notation is simple and we can easily grasp to understand the diagrams in the book. If you want to learn from solid examples, this is a good choice. If you are very new to OOAD, this is NOT the one you can start with.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 6 customer reviews on Amazon.ca

Want to see more reviews on this item?

› Go to Amazon.com to see all 9 reviews 4.6 out of 5 stars

Most recent customer reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes a significant contribution ...
"This book makes a significant contribution to the world of business computing by providing familiar business application examples. Read more

Published on Dec 14 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable asset for anyone doing OO development
This book is a big hit -- a very valuable asset for anybody doing object-oriented development. I really like the new strategies and notation, especially for scenarios. Read more

Published on Oct 13 1998