Practical guide to exploiting the power of Object Technology and UML in your software development process.

This book is a practical, example-driven introduction to OO analysis and design. The author is a highly experienced OO practitioner and in the book he highlights the benefits of using the OO approach for software development.

The first part of the book is a step-by-step guide through introductory concepts that are key to software development, which uses a continuous example to show how each principle and concept is applied in practice.

The rest of the book explains the basics of UML in detail -- using individual examples for each concept or technique.

Features:

• covers UML 1.4
• Java code examples
• final chapter covers the OCL (Object Constraint Language) -- none of the other books in this area cover this

New to this edition:

• 2 totally new chapters on analysis and design -- fully updated and new material, including integrating the process chapter
• all chapters completely updated
• offers solutions to problems that can't be solved by UML alone -- introduces the idea of 'stereotypes' and CASE tool use case templates which aren't covered by UML

• NEW!

Bernd Oestereich owns and manages his own software company Oose.de ("oose.de Dienstleistungen fur innovative Informatik") He has over 10 years' experience in OO software engineering, including working as an analyst, designer, programmer, project leader and trainer. He regularly speaks at conferences in the Object Technology, Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture and Software Management areas. He's also a partner in System Bauhaus (network of German OO consultants) with Nico Josuttis and Peter Hrushka.