- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; Har/Cdr edition (Jan 2 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 020130998X
- ISBN-13: 978-0201309980
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 19.3 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #685,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written by the three pioneers behind the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual provides an excellent real-world guide to working with UML. This title provides expert knowledge on all facets of today's UML standard, helping developers who are encountering UML on the job for the first time to be more productive.
The book begins with a history of UML, from structured design methods of the '60s and '70s to the competing object-oriented design standards that were unified in 1997 to create UML. For the novice, the authors illustrate key diagram types such as class, use case, state machine, activity, and implementation. (Of course, learning these basic diagram types is what UML is all about. The authors use an easy-to-understand ticket-booking system for many of their examples.)
After a tour of basic document types, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual provides an alphabetical listing of more than 350 UML terms. Entries range from a sentence or two to several pages in length. (Class, operation, and use case are just a few of the important terms that are covered.) Though you will certainly need to be acquainted with software engineering principles, this reference will serve the working software developer well. As the authors note, this isn't UML for Dummies, but neither is it an arcane academic treatise. The authors succeed in delivering a readable reference that will answer any UML question, no matter how common or obscure. --Richard Dragan
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The UML Reference Manual will provide a complete, integrated description of the concepts and notation of the Unified Modeling Language. The book will be organized both for learning UML as well as for reference to specific features. The approach of the book is to be somewhat similar to Stroustrup's Annotated Reference Manual for the C++ language although it is intended to be both a learning vehicle and a reference document. In comparison to the UML User Guide, the Reference Manual is meant to provide complete and comprehensive coverage of the language, organized by topic and convenient for quick reference.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tip Top for the dedicated UML modeler,
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This review is from: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Hardcover)
I do a lot of UML modelling, and I keep this book by my desk at all times. It has in-depth information, is well-written, and is well-organized.The Reference Manual and the Users Guide are generally sold as a pair. Quite frankly, if you have the Reference Manual, then you don't need the Users Guide. If you are just learning UML and are already familiar with any formal design methodologies, then you can do just fine with the Reference Manual alone. However, if you are new to graphical modeling in general, you may want to buy "UML for Dummies" to serve as a useful introduction.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Complete reference to a flawed paradigm,
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This review is from: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Hardcover)
UML is to the world of modelling what C++ is to the world of programming: Over-complex and utterly over-rated.The UML is flawed in too many ways to mention here. It's most major problem is that of complexity. Hundreds of pages in this "Reference Manual" are needed to describe all the little symbols, shapes (filled in or otherwise), double-chevrons and the like. Yet dispite this complexity, class semantics - clearly just as fundamental as class architecture - are reduced to a mere afterthought. Infact, this elementary aspect of modelling is left to completely separate book (a reflection of the concept's "appendage" status) under the title of Object Constraint Language. A concensus on a notation is clearly a worthy goal. But it's a problem if the concensus it that everyone shoots themselves in the foot, which it what I believe the software engineering field is doing by adopting the UML. I rate this book with two stars not because it is badly written, but because I believe it contributes little to the world of modelling in software engineering. As with C++, the UML will be mastered by all but a few, and the masses will simply stick to a small subset of the whole. I should perhaps add that an alternative has been around for a long time. It's not perfect (of course) but it requires just a few pages (around 3) of definition as opposed to 100+. It's called BON. What is more, I claim that 99% of commercial modelling scenarious can be modelled just as effectivly with this tried and tested modelling notation. See: "Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture - Analysis and Design of Reliable Systems" Walden & Nerson. Prentice Hall 1994, ISBN 0-13-031303-3
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too Theorectical,
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This review is from: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Hardcover)
This book is too theorectical. Needs to elucidate for readers with examples. Unless you are an UML professor or an abstract UML guru, this book does not help to learn UML. Would help if authors shows UML mapping to say, C++ and Java.
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