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Book Description

“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.



Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. IBM Press: The developerWorks ® Series
  5. IBM Press
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. About the Authors
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction to Visual Modeling
  10. Chapter 2. Beginning a Project
  11. Chapter 3. The Use Case Model
  12. Chapter 4. The Analysis Model
  13. Chapter 5. The Design Model
  14. Chapter 6. Implementation Model
  15. Appendix A. UML Metamodel
  16. Appendix B. Notation Summary
  17. Get The Rational Edge
  18. Index
  19. Footnotes
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 4
    3. Chapter 5
    4. Chapter 6
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