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Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks and Patterns
Format: Hardcover
Author: Bruce Powel Douglass
ReleaseDate: 11 May, 1999
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:
A "Must Have" for any Real Time developer's bookshelf 
Bruce does a great job of keeping the material informative and interesting with concrete "real world" examples. A fantastic description of how to apply UML and OO process to Embedded and Real-Time systems. I especially enjoyed the discussion of process and which UML artifacts are used in what phase of development and why. This book has quickly become required reading in my organization. If you want a UML book that provides "how to" knowledge without the doctoral dissertation, then this is for you.
Spend your money elsewhere 
This book provides a brief summary of a lot of issues but provides no real substance. I'd have to go along with the last 2 readers reviews. A lot of the examples just demonstrate the author's past experience with no explanation as to how you would apply them to your own. There are better books out there for designing systems with UML.
Too wide and too optimistic?
I liked the introduction that covers the three topics of OO, RT systems and fault tolerance (though it does not connect the three topics in any sense). I read this book as a first introduction to OO real time computing. I gave up reading the book after the chapter on method, though I skipped through the remaining chapters. The rest of the book was mainly old stuff on waterfall models and OOA/OOD. The whole book was also very commercial and connected to a specific product from the company that the author works for. There was no comparison to other (in my opinion superior) methods and tools.
Instead of buying this book I would recommend you to buy an established book on real time systems and an established book on OO. You will end up spending less money and get a better overview of the two fields by reading fewer pages.
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