Addison Wesley - 2003 - UML Distilled, Third Edition

• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Praise for 'UML Distilled'
• Diagrams
• The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
• The Component Software Series
• List of Figures
• Foreword to the Third Edition
• Foreword to the First Edition
• Preface
  • Why Bother with the UML?
  • Structure of the Book
  • Changes for the Third Edition
  • Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • What Is the UML?
  • Ways of Using the UML
  • How We Got to the UML
  • Notations and Meta-Models
  • UML Diagrams
  • What Is Legal UML?
  • The Meaning of UML
  • UML Is Not Enough
  • Where to Start with the UML
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 2. Development Process
  • Iterative and Waterfall Processes
  • Predictive and Adaptive Planning
  • Agile Processes
  • Rational Unified Process
  • Fitting a Process to a Project
  • Fitting the UML into a Process
  • Choosing a Development Process
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 3. Class Diagrams: The Essentials
  • Properties
  • Multiplicity
  • Programming Interpretation of Properties
  • Bidirectional Associations
  • Operations
  • Generalization
  • Notes and Comments
  • Dependency
  • Constraint Rules
  • When to Use Class Diagrams
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 4. Sequence Diagrams
  • Creating and Deleting Participants
  • Loops, Conditionals, and the Like
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls
  • When to Use Sequence Diagrams
• Chapter 5. Class Diagrams: Advanced Concepts
  • Keywords
  • Responsibilities
  • Static Operations and Attributes
  • Aggregation and Composition
  • Derived Properties
  • Interfaces and Abstract Classes
  • Read-Only and Frozen
  • Reference Objects and Value Objects
  • Qualified Associations
  • Classification and Generalization
  • Multiple and Dynamic Classification
  • Association Class
  • Template (Parameterized) Class
  • Enumerations
  • Active Class
  • Visibility
  • Messages
• Chapter 6. Object Diagrams
  • When to Use Object Diagrams
• Chapter 7. Package Diagrams
  • Packages and Dependencies
  • Package Aspects
  • Implementing Packages
  • When to Use Package Diagrams
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 8. Deployment Diagrams
  • When to Use Deployment Diagrams
• Chapter 9. Use Cases
  • Content of a Use Case
  • Use Case Diagrams
  • Levels of Use Cases
  • Use Cases and Features (or Stories)
  • When to Use Use Cases
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 10. State Machine Diagrams
  • Internal Activities
  • Activity States
  • Superstates
  • Concurrent States
  • Implementing State Diagrams
  • When to Use State Diagrams
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 11. Activity Diagrams
  • Decomposing an Action
  • Partitions
  • Signals
  • Tokens
  • Flows and Edges
  • Pins and Transformations
  • Expansion Regions
  • Flow Final
  • Join Specifications
  • And There's More
  • When to Use Activity Diagrams
  • Where to Find Out More
• Chapter 12. Communication Diagrams
  • When to Use Communication Diagrams
• Chapter 13. Composite Structures
  • When to Use Composite Structures
• Chapter 14. Component Diagrams
  • When to Use Component Diagrams
• Chapter 15. Collaborations
  • When to Use Collaborations
• Chapter 16. Interaction Overview Diagrams
  • When to Use Interaction Overview Diagrams
• Chapter 17. Timing Diagrams
  • When to Use Timing Diagrams
• Appendix Changes between UML Versions
  • Revisions to the UML
  • Changes in 'UML Distilled'
  • Changes from UML 1.0 to 1.1
  • Changes from UML 1.2 (and 1.1) to 1.3 (and 1.5)
  • Changes from UML 1.3 to 1.4
  • Changes from UML 1.4. to 1.5
  • From UML 1.x to UML 2.0
• Bibliography