UML 2.0 in Action: A project–based tutorial: A detailed and practical walk–through showing how to apply UML to real world development projects

If you‘ve read the UML documentation or a guide to the UML syntax, but don‘t feel you really know where to start with UML on a live project, then this unique book is what you need. Written as a practical case study, the book sets out to give you the intuitive feel for UML you need to confidently add it to your core development toolkit. The authors walk through a rich analysis and design scenario, explaining which parts of UML to use, and how to use them. The emphasis is on the systematic and practical application of UML to real business cases. The book was written for business analysts, technical architects and developers. It does not require detailed programming knowledge, nor is prior experience of UML mandatory. It shows how, with UML, simple models of business processes and specification models can be created and read with little effort.

About the Author:

Patrick Gr ssle is the co–founder and board member of KnowGravity Inc. (http://www.knowgravity.com) in Z rich, a leading supplier of MDA and Business Rules know–how. Patrick studied Informatics and Economics at the University of Z rich. In 1986, he built his first model of an IT system using structured analysis and did not stop modeling since then. He has applied UML in many projects. He used and consulted structured and object–oriented methods for system specification. In the nineties, he helped develop the first localized UML trainings in Switzerland. The UML–based ‘Model Driven Architecture‘ and the ‘Business Rules Approach‘ absorb his main interest nowadays, but he is still doing UML training and consulting.