Learning Uml

by Alhir, Sinan Si

• ISBN13: 9780596003449
• ISBN10: 0596003447
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Learning UML introduces the Unified Modeling Language and leads you through an orderly progress towards mastery of the language. Throughout this book, author Sinan Si Alhir maintains a clear focus on UML the language and avoids getting caught up in the cobwebs of methodology. His presentation is direct and to-the-point. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises that you can use to test your growing knowledge of UML and its concepts.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part I. Fundamentals
1. Introduction	3	(12)
What Is the UML?	4	(4)
The UML and Process	8	(5)
Learning the UML	13	(2)
2. Object-Oriented Modeling	15	(28)
Project Management System Requirements	15	(1)
Alphabets, Words, and Sentences	16	(3)
The Object-Oriented Paradigm	19	(7)
Paragraphs	26	(13)
Sections	39	(1)
Documents	40	(3)
Part II. Structural Modeling
3. Class and Object Diagrams	43	(48)
Classes and Objects	44	(11)
Associations and Links	55	(14)
Types, Implementation Classes, and Interfaces	69	(3)
Generalizations, Realizations, and Dependencies	72	(7)
Packages and Subsystems	79	(7)
Exercises	86	(5)
4. Use-Case Diagrams	91	(17)
Actors	92	(2)
Use Cases	94	(2)
Communicate Associations	96	(2)
Dependencies	98	(4)
Generalizations	102	(4)
Exercises	106	(2)
5. Component and Deployment Diagrams	108	(13)
Components	108	(2)
Nodes	110	(2)
Dependencies	112	(4)
Communication Associations	116	(1)
Exercises	117	(4)
Part III. Behavioral Modeling
6. Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams	121	(26)
Roles	122	(6)
Messages and Stimuli	128	(1)
Interactions and Collaborations	128	(1)
Sequence Diagrams	129	(9)
Collaboration Diagrams	138	(5)
Exercises	143	(4)
7. State Diagrams	147	(9)
States	147	(2)
Transitions	149	(3)
Advanced State Diagrams	152	(2)
Exercises	154	(2)
8. Activity Diagrams	156	(5)
Action States	156	(1)
Flow Transitions	157	(3)
Swimlanes	160	(1)
Decisions	161	(1)
Concurrency	162	(1)
Exercises	162
Part IV. Beyond the Unified Modeling Language
9. Extension Mechanisms	161	(16)
Language Architecture	167	(2)
Stereotypes	169	(2)
Properties	171	(2)
Profiles	173	(2)
Exercises	175	(2)
10. The Object Constraint language	177	(14)
Expressions	177	(3)
Simple Constraints	180	(4)
Complex Constraints	184	(3)
Exercises	187
Part V. Appendixes
A. References	191	(2)
B. Exercise Solutions	193	(32)
Index	225