Learning UML

Learning UML introduces the Unified Modeling Language and leads you through an orderly progress towards mastery of the language. Throughout this book, author Sinan Si Alhir maintains a clear focus on UML the language and avoids getting caught up in the cobwebs of methodology. His presentation is direct and to-the-point. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises that you can use to test your growing knowledge of UML and its concepts.

Table of Contents

		Preface
			Audience
			Using This Book
			Organization and Content
			Conventions Used in This Book
		Part I:  Fundamentals
			Chapter 1.  Introduction
				Section 1.1.  What Is the UML?
				Section 1.2.  The UML and Process
				Section 1.3.  Learning the UML
			Chapter 2.  Object-Oriented Modeling
				Section 2.1.  Project Management System Requirements
				Section 2.2.  Alphabets, Words, and Sentences
				Section 2.3.  The Object-Oriented Paradigm
				Section 2.4.  Paragraphs
				Section 2.5.  Sections
				Section 2.6.  Documents
		Part II:  Structural Modeling
			Chapter 3.  Class and Object Diagrams
				Section 3.1.  Classes and Objects
				Section 3.2.  Associations and Links
				Section 3.3.  Types, Implementation Classes, and Interfaces
				Section 3.4.  Generalizations, Realizations, and Dependencies
				Section 3.5.  Packages and Subsystems
				Section 3.6.  Exercises
			Chapter 4.  Use-Case Diagrams
				Section 4.1.  Actors
				Section 4.2.  Use Cases
				Section 4.3.  Communicate Associations
				Section 4.4.  Dependencies
				Section 4.5.  Generalizations
				Section 4.6.  Exercises
			Chapter 5.  Component and Deployment Diagrams
				Section 5.1.  Components
				Section 5.2.  Nodes
				Section 5.3.  Dependencies
				Section 5.4.  Communication Associations
				Section 5.5.  Exercises
		Part III:  Behavioral Modeling
			Chapter 6.  Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams
				Section 6.1.  Roles
				Section 6.2.  Messages and Stimuli
				Section 6.3.  Interactions and Collaborations
				Section 6.4.  Sequence Diagrams
				Section 6.5.  Collaboration Diagrams
				Section 6.6.  Exercises
			Chapter 7.  State Diagrams
				Section 7.1.  States
				Section 7.2.  Transitions
				Section 7.3.  Advanced State Diagrams
				Section 7.4.  Exercises
			Chapter 8.  Activity Diagrams
				Section 8.1.  Action States
				Section 8.2.  Flow Transitions
				Section 8.3.  Swimlanes
				Section 8.4.  Decisions
				Section 8.5.  Concurrency
				Section 8.6.  Exercises
		Part IV:  Beyond the Unified Modeling Language
			Chapter 9.  Extension Mechanisms
				Section 9.1.  Language Architecture
				Section 9.2.  Stereotypes
				Section 9.3.  Properties
				Section 9.4.  Profiles
				Section 9.5.  Exercises
			Chapter 10.  The Object Constraint Language
				Section 10.1.  Expressions
				Section 10.2.  Simple Constraints
				Section 10.3.  Complex Constraints
				Section 10.4.  Exercises
		Part V:  Appendixes
			Appendix A.  References
				Section A.1.  World Wide Web
				Section A.2.  Books
			Appendix B.  Exercise Solutions
				Section B.1.  Structural Modeling
				Section B.2.  Behavioral Modeling
				Section B.3.  Extension Mechanisms and the Object Constraint Language
		Colophon
		Index