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

UML Distilled Second Edition A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language

Foreword

Preface

     Structure of the Book

     Changes for the Second Edition

     Acknowledgments for the First Edition

About the Authors

1. Introduction

     What Is the UML?

     How We Got Here

     Notations and Meta-Models

     Why Do Analysis and Design?

     Looking for More Information

2. An Outline Development Process

     Overview of the Process

     Inception

     Elaboration

     Planning the Construction Phase

     Construction

     Transition

     When to Use Iterative Development

     Where to Find Out More

3. Use Cases

     Use Case Diagrams

     Business and System Use Cases

     When to Use Use Cases

     Where to Find Out More

4. Class Diagrams: The Essentials

     Perspectives

     Associations

     Attributes

     Operations

     Generalization

     Constraint Rules

     When to Use Class Diagrams

     Where to Find Out More

5. Interaction Diagrams

     Sequence Diagrams

     Collaboration Diagrams

     Comparing Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams

     When to Use Interaction Diagrams

6. Class Diagrams: Advanced Concepts

     Stereotypes

     Object Diagram

     Class Scope Operations and Attributes

     Multiple and Dynamic Classification

     Aggregation and Composition

     Derived Associations and Attributes

     Interfaces and Abstract Classes

     Reference Objects and Value Objects

     Collections for Multivalued Association Ends

     Frozen

     Classification and Generalization

     Qualified Associations

     Association Class

     Parameterized Class

     Visibility

7. Packages and Collaborations

     Packages

     Collaborations

     When to Use Package Diagrams and Collaborations

     Where to Find Out More

8. State Diagrams

     Concurrent State Diagrams

     When to Use State Diagrams

     Where to Find Out More

9. Activity Diagrams

     Decomposing an Activity

     Dynamic Concurrency

     Swimlanes

     When to Use Activity Diagrams

     Where to Find Out More

10. Physical Diagrams

     Deployment Diagrams

     Component Diagrams

     Combining Component and Deployment Diagrams

     When to Use Physical Diagrams

11. UML and Programming

     Patient Observation: Domain Model

     Patient Observation: Specification Model

     Moving to Code

A. Techniques and Their Uses

B. Changes between UML Versions

     Revisions to the UML

     Scheduled Future Revisions

     Changes in UML Distilled

     Changes from UML 1.0 to 1.1

     Changes from UML 1.2 (and 1.1) to 1.3 (and 1.4)

Bibliography

     Bibliography