UML 2 For Dummies [Paperback]

• 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

Introduction 1

Part I: UML and System Development 7

Chapter 1: What’s UML About, Alfie? 9

Chapter 2: Following Best Practices 19

Part II: The Basics of Object Modeling 37

Chapter 3: Objects and Classes 39

Chapter 4: Relating Objects That Work Together 61

Chapter 5: Including the Parts with the Whole 83

Chapter 6: Reusing Superclasses: Generalization and Inheritance 93

Chapter 7: Organizing UML Class Diagrams and Packages 111

Part III: The Basics of Use-Case Modeling 129

Chapter 8: Introducing Use-Case Diagrams 131

Chapter 9: Defining the Inside of a Use Case 147

Chapter 10: Relating Use Cases to Each Other 161

Part IV: The Basics of Functional Modeling 175

Chapter 11: Introducing Functional Modeling 177

Chapter 12: Capturing Scenarios with Sequence Diagrams 189

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