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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I found Charlie's book very informative and useful to our design efforts. The book is very good as a learning tool for anyone who has not had exposure to UML. We are going to use this book as a training tool for both our technical team and our Product Managers (Business Partners). This is definitely a book you want in your library.
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Summary: Too much kitchen sink dump, too little coherence
Review: I'm not sure why I even bothered with this book. It gives little to clarify the use of the many tools that UML offers, and little to help you understand either where or how to design flexibility into your systems. It felt more like a collection of disjoint ideas with little practical experience behind it (perhaps some classroom or academic experience), dubious interpretation and semantics added onto the UML, a hokey description of things like activity diagrams and refinement. I found many reasons why I would not want to be on a project that designed based on this book. e.g. I would never defer consideration of external systems in use-case interactions to design-time, or decide on association directions as recommended here, or either use design patterns the way this book does. Some of the designs I would end up with would be terrible. Overall not impressive and only marginally useful. As a point of reference, I am moderately experienced with OOD.
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Summary: Book Description
Review: Object-oriented development is the process of turning an idea or a problem specification into an object-oriented program. The resulting program is a large collection of objects that communicate with one another. This book takes you through the process of designing and developing a program that will meet your needs and be adaptable to new requirements in the future. This book covers: * Performing object-oriented analysis to define the functional requirements of a system and describe its classes * Transforming an analysis model into a feasible object-oriented design * Using UML to document all aspects of the analysis and design of a product * Constructing more flexible designs with the help of guidelines provided in the text
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Summary: Very Useful Material !
Review: Practical and understandable. Very good read - espeicially for the beginner.
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Summary: One of the TWO best UMLs guides available
Review: Quite simply, you can dispense with a shelf of 'other' UML and OO design books. Concisely written and clearly illustrated, this volume is indispensable. Richter summarizes the best analysis methods and diagramming techniques of Booch, the three amigos, Bob Martin, Larman, Coad and others. It is all right here. The companion to this text is, of course Fowler's "UML Distilled" (and ... well ... OK, one more ... Booch's "UML User Guide". An excellent reference and modeling resource in a single tome ... covers a lot of ground with copious examples. (And if you are STILL hashing around with Uses vs. Extends (v1.1), Richter's examples are the cleanest anywhere.)
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Summary: One of the TWO best UMLs guides available
Review: Quite simply, you can dispense with a shelf of 'other' UML and OO design books. Concisely written and clearly illustrated, this volume is indispensable. Richter summarizes the best analysis methods and diagramming techniques of Booch, the three amigos, Bob Martin, Larman, Coad and others. It is all right here. The companion to this text is, of course Fowler's "UML Distilled" (and ... well ... OK, one more ... Booch's "UML User Guide". An excellent reference and modeling resource in a single tome ... covers a lot of ground with copious examples. (And if you are STILL hashing around with Uses vs. Extends (v1.1), Richter's examples are the cleanest anywhere.)
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Summary: Fantastic book for people who want to explore the UML world.
Review: The book "Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML" is absolutely brilliant.I have just ventured into the UML field,I found the articles lucidly explained. I found the Design Problems and Object-Oriented Solutions very helpful,it's given me a fantastic start in a very small timeframe,Something like a rocket firing off at the countdown of 10. I have gone thru the device polling problem. [ Design Problem 1 You must develop software that allows clients to periodically check for changes in the status of devices in a network. ] Just from one sentence ,The way the problem was tackled can teach a layman to design a given system. Cheers
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Summary: Fantastic book for people who want to explore the UML world.
Review: The book "Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML" is absolutely brilliant.I have just ventured into the UML field,I found the articles lucidly explained. I found the Design Problems and Object-Oriented Solutions very helpful,it's given me a fantastic start in a very small timeframe,Something like a rocket firing off at the countdown of 10. I have gone thru the device polling problem. [ Design Problem 1 You must develop software that allows clients to periodically check for changes in the status of devices in a network. ] Just from one sentence ,The way the problem was tackled can teach a layman to design a given system. Cheers
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Summary: Fantastic book for people who want to explore the UML world.
Review: The book "Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML" is absolutely brilliant.I have just ventured into the UML field,I found the articles lucidly explained. I found the Design Problems and Object-Oriented Solutions very helpful,it's given me a fantastic start in a very small timeframe,Something like a rocket firing off at the countdown of 10. I have gone thru the device polling problem. [ Design Problem 1 You must develop software that allows clients to periodically check for changes in the status of devices in a network. ] Just from one sentence ,The way the problem was tackled can teach a layman to design a given system. Cheers
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This book is a terrific tutorial on UML and includes the guidelines that I needed on developing class diagrams as well as class diagramming notation. The order processing example was great in helping me to understand these concepts. The same example was used to give detailed instruction on developing dynamic diagrams. This example provided a coherent transition from static to dynamic design which worked well in helping me understand the concepts. However, it really helped that other examples such as an elevator control system were used which helped me see how to apply the concepts to different systems. I found the coverage of flexibility guidelines to be of particular interest in my job and have recommended that everyone in my group have a copy of this book as a reference in our new project. As a 15 year veteran in the industry I found this to be the best coverage of UML that I've found.
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