Type of bind: Textbook Type of bind
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN num: 9780130115102
ISBN number: 013011510X
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 221
Printing Date: June 15, 1999
Publishing house: Prentice Hall PTR
Sale Popularity Level: 171205
Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
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Explores the importance of colour and introduces the color-coding that project teams have been applying. Delivers ready-to-use Java models, and a process that integrates Java modeling into the delivery of frequent, tangible, working results. CD-ROM included.
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Java Modeling in Colour with UML--printed in color--provides four UML 'archetypes' for common entities in business modeling. These have rather abstract names like the moment-interval. Each archetype is assigned a different colour in UML. The book uses these four archetypes to model 61 domain-specific business components for manufacturing (including suppliers and inventory control), facilities management, sales, employees, and organizations, plus accounting and document management.
Similar in spirit to software-design patterns, these UML components are catalogued with short prose descriptions and illustrated with UML. The detail here is often impressive, though the type is necessarily small. (Fortunately, the CD-ROM contains all these diagrams--including Java source code--for use within your own designs.) The authors--all experts in UML--have done the heavy lifting here. The idea is to incorporate these components within your own projects.
Besides a catalog of expert components, this book describes the authors' Feature-Driven Development (FDD) software-design process. (While there is one UML standard, design processes still proliferate.) FDD touts good productivity with a minimum of overhead. The authors argue that it can be used productively within today's ever-shorter business cycles.
In all, this book features much more than just color-enhanced UML. It provides a foundation of UML (and Java classes on the CD-ROM) that can model most business problems. If you design with UML, you can surely benefit from this intelligent and visually savvy text. --Richard Dragan
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The single most useful book on modeling I've ever read. This is not a java design pattern book, there really isn't any java in it at all. This is less a cookbook than a book on the theory of cooking.
The central idea in this book is the 'Domain Neutral' design pattern. Read until you understand that, and then read again while you apply the idea a couple times in real life. Then you will be in awe. If you are looking for the answer to 'how do I model a shopping cart step by step' this is not the book for you. If you are a working designer who faces new domains every few days and needs a sharp utility knife in your toolkit this is it.
8 years later I'm still referring to this book occasionally and practice it's ideas constantly. I can't say that about any other technical book I own besides richie/kernighan's classic.
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The book's UML diagrams are very necessary for understanding the book but the diagrams are illegible due to the use of miniscule font. The text of the book has a good font but half or more of the pages of the book are UML diagrams.
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This is an excellent book. It is, however, terse and has taken me a long time to get to grips with its content and language. I have had to read several of the Coad books to 'get it' but it's finally coming together. I would recommend you read it in conjunction with (or maybe after reading) "Streamlined Object Modeling" by Jill Nicola (and would love to see her do a follow-up book). To those that say there is no Java in the title: look at the CD.
To be honest I think all the Coad books are good (the "Java Design" book is really good too and was my very first contact with Coad's books), some are dated but still stand up. They do take a lot of the guesswork out of modelling.
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Though "Java" is in the title, this book is not limited to Java, and, indeed, there are no Java code examples. Usage of UML, however is extensive. The book presents an approach to generalizing business components (modelliing patterns - referred to as archetypes) that really helps one to understand the structure and interaction of business components. I use this book as a regular reference. It includes a near-complete business component model through 12 compound components.
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I often test the utility of a book by one of two ways:
1) Did it expand my thinking?
2) Do I constantly refer to it after reading it the very first time?
The seminal patterns book, Design Patterns - by Gamma et al, (also known as the GOF) passes both tests. This book does not.
I haven't had much use for this book since purchasing it in 1999. It seems Ironic, somehow, since enjoyed the Togethersoft UML refresher training I received in 2000.
Together/J, supports the UML methodology, and also supports for the these models outlined in the book.
That said, it's worth borrowing a copy to see for yourself. I'd also recommend downloading the current 'whiteboard' edition from Togethersoft.
Jeff Grayson borrowed my copy when he was working on a project to improve VIANT's software development methodology with the Rosetta project.
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