Product Description

• Uses friendly, easy–to–understand For Dummies style to help readers learn to model systems with the latest version of UML, the modeling language used by companies throughout the world to develop blueprints for complex computer systems
• Guides programmers, architects, and business analysts through applying UML to design large, complex enterprise applications that enable scalability, security, and robust execution
• Illustrates concepts with mini–cases from different business domains and provides practical advice and examples
• Covers critical topics for users of UML, including object modeling, case modeling, advanced dynamic and functional modeling, and component and deployment modeling

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133770 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 430 pages

From the Back Cover
Get up to speed on object–oriented modeling

Build complex architectures with UML 2, follow best practices, and express yourself

When it comes to modeling, this book is not just another pretty face! It guides you gently through the complexities of UML, helps you adjust to the UML 2 standard, shows you how to extract key information from UML models, and more. Before you know it, you’ll be communicating and developing systems like never before.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear–out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Michael Jesse Chonoles ia an established system developer, educator, author, and consultant. Michael has done just about everything that you can do in software and system development—business, requirements, and software analysis; software, system, and architectural design; coding in many languages; testing and quality control—right through marketing, packing, and shrinkwrapping the software. He is former Chief of Methodology at the Advanced Concepts Center (ACC) and has an MSE in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and BSs in Math and Physics from MIT. 

James A. Schardt is Advanced Concepts Center’s Chief Technologist. He provides 24 years of experience and a firm grounding in object oriented development, data warehousing, and distributed systems. He teaches and mentors Fortune 50 companies in the U.S. and abroad. His many years of practice in object–oriented systems, database design, change management, business engineering, instructional design, and team facilitation bring a wealth of experience to his assignments. 

Customer Reviews

Honest and friendly
Unlike many books on structured methods, this book exposes the silliness, explains the jargon and provides good examples of many of the diagram types. It includes enough history of the "three amigos" for the reader to understand the background of the creation of the method and helpfully points out the new and changed elements in UML 2 for those who want to know this level of detail. It is written in an easy to understand style with jokes along the way to keep everything light and friendly. It even has a cheat sheet at the front for the symbol and line types that will be encountered. UML does not lend itself to easy explanation and there are points that may not be 100% clear, but compared with the vast majority of books on this topic, I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Superb book on UML
This book is absolutely superb. It is better than spending 3 years at Uni trying to learn UML (trust me, I've done it).

It teaches you EVERYTHING on the UML2 language and it does in such a way that you actually find it hard to put it down. Its very easy to read and understand and I would strongly recommend it to anyone wanting to know about UML. Forget all the other books that look more 'professional' - thats all they do, they only look it. This book has the real substance.

Flawed
I was a newcomer to UML but I had good OO understanding coming into this book. I read it cover to cover to make sure I did not miss anything. Unfortunately I found this way of navigating the book to be quite dull; worse still I often could not follow the rationale for the many types of diagrams. I would have appreciated more explanation on the relative merits of one diagram or another, how they are similar and how they are different, the book sometimes gives you the impression you should do them all.

Most damning though is that, as far as I can tell, there are numerous small mistakes in the diagrams. These mistakes often include wrong arrowheads or dashing of lines, text that does not match the explanation & mislabelled figure numbers. There are also too many grammatical mistakes in the main text.

I'm guessing that >95% of it is factually correct, but I expected a higher standard.