“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
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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
