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“Terry’s style is always direct, approachable, and pragmatic. Abstraction is hard, and visualizing abstractions is as well, but here she’ll guide you in doing both using Rational Software Architect.” —From the Foreword by Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Master UML 2.0 Visual Modeling with IBM Rational Software Architect Using IBM Rational Software Architect, you can unify all aspects of software design and development. It allows you to exploit new modeling language technology to architect systems more effectively and develop them more productively. Now, two of IBM’s leading experts have written the definitive, start-to-finish guide to UML 2-based visual modeling with Rational Software Architect. You’ll learn hands-on, using a simplified case study that’s already helped thousands of professionals master analysis, design, and implementation with IBM Rational technologies. Renowned UML expert Terry Quatrani and J2EE/SOA evangelist Jim Palistrant walk you through visualizing all facets of system architecture at every stage of the project lifecycle. Whether you’re an architect, developer, or project manager, you’ll discover how to leverage IBM Rational’s latest innovations to optimize any project. Coverage includes Making the most of model-driven development with Rational Software Architect’s integrated design and development tools Understanding visual modeling: goals, techniques, language, and processes Beginning any visual modeling project: sound principles and best practices Capturing and documenting functional requirements with use case models Creating analysis models that begin to reveal your optimal system implementation Building design models that abstract your implementation model and source code Using implementation models to represent your system’s physical composition, from subsystems to executables and data Transforming these models to actual running code The IBM Press developerWorks® Series is a unique undertaking in which print books and the Web are mutually supportive. The publications in this series are complemented by resources on the developerWorks Web site on ibm.com. Icons throughout the book alert the reader to these valuable resources.

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Author:   Terry Quatrani ,  Jim Palistrant
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   IBM Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780321238085

ISBN 10:   0321238087
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 June 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword xv Preface xvii About the Authors xxiii Chapter 1: Introduction to Visual Modeling 1 The Triangle for Success 4 The Role of Notation 5 History of the UML 5 The Role of Process 8 What Is Iterative and Incremental Development? 8 The Rational Unified Process 9 Rational Software Architect 12 Summary 13 developerWorks Links 14 Chapter 2: Beginning a Project 15 Defining the Right Project 17 Eastern State University (ESU) Background 18 Risks for the Course Registration Problem 19 ESU Course Registration Problem Statement 19 Summary 20 Chapter 3: The Use Case Model 21 System Behavior 23 Actors 27 Use Cases 31 Use Case Diagrams 43 Activity Diagrams 50 Summary 57 developerWorks Links 58 Chapter 4: The Analysis Model 61 Creating an Analysis Model 63 Analysis Model Template 64 Use Case Realizations 66 Documenting Classes 75 Distributing Behavior 80 Sequence Diagrams 81 View of Participating Classes 87 Summary 92 developerWorks Links 93 Chapter 5: The Design Model 95 Design Model 97 Design Elements 101 Identifying Design Elements from Analysis Classes 105 Class Diagrams 109 User Interfaces 120 Summary 125 developerWorks Links 125 Chapter 6: Implementation Model 127 Persistence Choices 129 Service Data Objects 131 User Interface Choices 134 JavaServer Faces 136 Tying It Together 137 Summary 161 developerWorks Links 161 Appendix A: UML Metamodel 163 UML Definition Documents 165 Specification Document Structure 165 Metamodel Structure 166 Appendix B: Notation Summary 169 Index 183

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Terry Quatrani, IBM Rational’s UML Evangelist, is responsible for training and transitioning Fortune 500 companies to object technology and for preaching the visual modeling gospel of Grady Booch, Jim Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson. She has spent twenty-one years developing and deploying large software systems. Formerly at GE, she was founding consultant for the Lockheed Martin Advanced Concepts Center. Jim Palistrant, IBM Rational’s J2EE and SOA Evangelist, educates customers and the IBM field force about J2EE and SOA concepts and tools. A frequent speaker at technical conferences worldwide, he has worked with Java, J2EE, and Web technology since 1995.

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