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Title: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch ISBN: 0-201-30998-X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 23 December, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too Theorectical
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Accurate, complete (for UML 1.*); not for UML beginners
Comment: This book is one in a series of three by the three amigos. It is certainly the most authoritative and accurate of all three (the other two being very fuzzy in places). The book consists of the following major sections:
I: Background (some history) II: UML concepts (static, use case, statechart and other 'views') III: Reference
This book is pure syntax and can answer most of the questions that you might have about UML syntax. However, this book is not for beginners because it assumes (in my opinion) that you have applied UML to real-life situations. I find the book to be well-written (even if it is fairly dry) and compares favouably with other books in the UML series. There are different ways that you can use this book. First, you can consult it to check of you are using the correct UML syntax in your applications. Second, you can use it to deteremine what you have still to learn in UML (for example, activity diagrams, statecharts). This book should complement the other, more application-specific UML books. For example, it could be seen as a follow-up of Fowler's somewhat outdated UML Primer.
It would have been a good idea if the authors had included a complete test case showing how all the specific 'views' are documented and how they fit together. UML has about 11 different views and which one to use and when will be a major undertaking if you are embarking on a first project.
This book will be outdated as soon as the new UML 2.0 specification is ready. Do the authors have plans for a new version of their book "UML Reference 2.0"?
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reference
Comment: This book is a comprehensive, well-written reference that stays by my side whenever I'm modeling. The accompanying CD-Rom has the book's text stored as a PDF file and is arguably even more useful because it is hyperlinked.
A few others reviewers disagree, but their complaints suggest a misunderstanding of the book's intent. This book is a "Reference Manual." It is not a tutorial and does not cover tangental topics (like good/bad OOAD practices). Think of it as a UML encyclopedia.
If you want a concise description of every UML diagram and notation then this is the book you want.
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Title: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson ISBN: 0201571684 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: The Unified Software Development Process by Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh ISBN: 0201571692 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (2nd Edition) by Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott ISBN: 020165783X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn ISBN: 0201702258 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process (2nd Edition) by Craig Larman ISBN: 0130925691 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 13 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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