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Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML
Format: Paperback
Author: Charles Richter
ReleaseDate: 15 September, 1999
Publisher: Sams
Rating:
Good for a guide on OOAD and how to apply it 
Richter spends time detailing examples. This book is good if you are familiar with the concepts of OO and abstraction but not really sure how it all fits into UML and how to apply it. If you want an A-Z guide on UML this is not the book. Its about how to use the methodology. It is not overly verbose, so you have to study the book. The examples are simple and usually this is a disadvantage because it lacks "real world" applicability. But Richter has used simple examples to highlight critical points about a designing OO systems. So its definitely not light reading. With very little understanding of UML and its many facets i still found this book to be quite informative and educational. It brings together basic techniques that you can use in the process of analysis and design before you start to code. The book is logically sequenced and builds your knowledge on each chapter. Richter's writing style is concise and to the point and assumes you know how systems are coded. One of the strengths of this book is that Richter shows you how a particular technique is used and also in many cases when not to use it and why. One other review criticise this book on a minor point that is subjective and i think is dwarfed by the strengths of this book. This book is a summation of Richter's experience of analysis and design. Read it and you will learn.
Fantastic book for people who want to explore the UML world.
I have just ventured into the UML field,I found the articles lucidly explained. The book "Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML" is absolutely brilliant. 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.
One of the TWO best UMLs guides available
Concisely written and clearly illustrated, this volume is indispensable. Quite simply, you can dispense with a shelf of 'other' UML and OO design books. 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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