www.dbebooks.com - Free Books & magazines www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Model-Driven Development with Executable UML Preface xxi Part I: Introduction Chapter 1: Information Systems Modeling . . 3 Chapter 2: Traditional Approaches to IS Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Chapter 3: The Object Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Part II: Overview of OOIS UML Chapter 4: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Chapter 5: Basic Language Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 6: Interaction and Querying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Part III: Concepts Chapter 7: General Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Chapter 8: Classes and Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Chapter 9: Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Chapter 10: Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Chapter 11: Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Chapter 12: Querying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Chapter 13: Operations and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 Chapter 14: State Machines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 Chapter 15: Collaborations and Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 Chapter 16: Commands, Presentation, and Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 Part IV: Method Chapter 17: About the Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 Chapter 18: Conceptual Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609 Chapter 19: Modeling Functional Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631 Part V: Supplemental Chapter 20: Characteristics of Information Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663 Chapter 21: Process and Principles of Software Development . . . . . . . . . . . 685 Chapter 22: The Relational Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 Chapter 23: Structured Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727 Chapter 24: Introduction to the Object Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737 References and Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753 www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Model-Driven Development with Executable UML www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Model-Driven Development with Executable UML Dragan Milicev Wiley Publishing, Inc. www.it-ebooks.info Model-Driven Development with Executable UML Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Dragan Milicev Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-48163-9 Manufactured in the United States of America 10987654321 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Indexer Johnna VanHoose Dinse www.it-ebooks.info [...]... technical development, this widely used approach suffers from discontinuities in development caused by incomplete or informal coupling of the object with the relational paradigm 3 For that reason, the term ‘ executable UML ’ does not refer to any particular executable version of UML, but is rather a generic term that denotes any formal and executable specialization of standard UML One such executable. .. systems ❑ One executable profile of UML for model-driven development of information systems Following are the goals of this book: ❑ To provide an in-depth tutorial on model-driven development and UML for building information systems ❑ To show how information systems can be understood better and developed more efficiently by using the object paradigm, model-driven development, and a profile of UML that is... exploiting model-driven rapid application development with an executable profile of UML Readers who might benefit include system analysts, system and software architects, designers, developers, and testers xxiv www.it-ebooks.info Preface The book will also be interesting to researchers who want to explore new software development strategies, methods, and metaphors, especially model-driven development. .. Language 25 27 Characteristics of UML Profiling UML Traditional OO Development Approach Desired Characteristics of Object-Oriented Information Systems 28 30 31 33 www.it-ebooks.info Contents Usability Aspects Development Aspects 34 36 The Rest of This Book 37 Part II: Overview of OOIS UML Chapter 4: Getting Started Key Features of OOIS UML The Organization of OOIS UML Chapter 5: Basic Language Concepts... — The applications intensively interact with users and/or other systems to accomplish their purpose through user or machine interfaces This book focuses on model-driven development of information systems using UML UML is not, however, a fully formal language This means that its semantics are not defined in an unambiguous way in all its elements For that reason, UML cannot be used as a language in the... fully formal and, thus, executable A model built in such a profile represents the implementation of the software at the same time, and, because it can be executed, is not just an informal sketch of the design This book proposes and describes one new executable profile of UML for the described application domain It is but one of several existing profiles of UML with formal and executable semantics, specifically... practice of model-driven development and UML He is the author of three previous books on C++, object-oriented programming, and UML, published in Serbia You may contact him at dmilicev@etf.rs www.it-ebooks.info Acknowledgments I would like to express my great debt of gratitude to Bran Selic, one of the pioneers and most respected authorities on model-driven software engineering and key contributors to UML, ... projects and all its products: SOLoist, a rapid application model-driven development framework for information systems; SOL UML Visual Debugger, one of the world’s first UML visual debuggers, designed for the Poseidon for UML modeling tool; and SOL Java Visual Debugger, a plug-in for Eclipse that enables modeling of test object structures using UML object diagrams He has published papers in some of the... and executable (rather than the relational paradigm or its incomplete coupling with object orientation) Note that this book is not any of the following: ❑ A tutorial on, a reference specification of, or a textbook about the entire general-purpose UML — This book does cover a major part of UML, but there are still parts of UML that are not covered Instead, the book focuses on the concepts and parts of UML. .. 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