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UML 2.0 in Action: A project-based tutorial

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UML 2.0 in Action: A project-based tutorial

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Most books about UML describe it almost in its entirety. Inevitably you're left with only a superficial knowledge of the range of UML elements, without a deep and intuitive understanding of how to apply UML as a whole to real world design problems. This book doesn't set out to cover all of UML, but instead pulls together those parts of UML with immediate practical relevance and presents them as part of a coherent process for using UML in your actual development projects.This book is designed to be read while you work on a real project. After an initial review of the essentials of UML and the design process, it begins with the modeling of a business system and its business processes, in this case an airport. Then the IT system intended to serve that business process is described and analysed. Finally the integration of the system into the production environment is covered in detail. The book can be used in two ways: it can be read through as a thorough grounding in how UML really works in practice; in addition it can be used as stand alone guide to that particular aspect of your own project. Both result in an intuitive understanding of how to actually use UML.

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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
UML 2.0 in Action A Project-Based Tutorial
UML 2.0 in Action A Project-Based Tutorial
Credits
Credits
Preface
Preface
About the Authors
About the Authors
About This Book
About This Book
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1
Introduction
Introduction
2
Basic Principles and Background
Basic Principles and Background
2.1 Introduction to the Case Study
2.2 Models, Views, and Diagrams
2.3 Information Systems and IT Systems
2.4 The Models of our Case Study
2.5 History of UML: Methods and Notations
2.6 Requirement Specification
2.7 UML 2.0
3
Modeling Business Systems
Modeling Business Systems
3.1 Business Processes and Business Systems
3.2 One Model—Two Views
3.3 External View
The Internal View
4
Modeling IT Systems
Modeling IT Systems
4.1 External View
4.2 Structural View
4.3 The Behavioral View
4.4 Interaction View
5
Modeling for System Integration
Modeling for System Integration
5.1 Terminology of System Integration
5.2 Messages in UML
5.3 One Model—Two Views
5.4 Process View
5.5 The Static View
Index
Index

About the Authors

Patrick Grässle is the co-founder and board member of KnowGravity Inc. (www.knowgravity.com) in Zürich, a leading supplier of MDA and Business Rules know-how. Patrick studied Informatics and Economics at the University of Zürich. In 1986, he built his first model of an IT system using structured analysis and did not stop modeling since then. He has applied UML in many projects. He used and consulted structured and object-oriented methods for system specification. In the nineties, he helped develop the first localized UML trainings in Switzerland.

The UML-based 'Model Driven Architecture' and the 'Business Rules Approach' absorb his main interest nowadays, but he is still doing UML training and consulting. Patrick can be reached at .

Henriette Baumann is the co-founder and board member of integratio GmbH (www.integratio.com), based in Zurich. Henriette studied Informatics and Economics and was involved in software development and engineering since the mid-eighties, particularly with the transformation of business requirements in software systems. In 1998, she started with UML business modeling and has used UML in several projects. Today her main focus is on project management and consulting for business analysis, business requirements engineering, and business specifications based on UML, especially for financial service companies.

Henriette can be reached at .

Philippe Baumann is co-founder and member of the board of integratio GmbH (www.integratio.com), based in Zurich.

Philippe studied Informatics at the University of Hagen (D) and was involved in software development and application integration since the mid-eighties. In 1998, he started with UML, and its usage in system integration and electronic data interchange between companies.

Today he is the project manager and consultant for technical aspects and implementation of software integration using UML. He is also active in the field of implementation and integration of Open Source business software such as ERP and CRM.

Philippe can be reached at .

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