The Unified Modeling Language User Guide

This book is *not* a tutorial. People wanting to learn and use UML quickly should look elsewhere (such as "UML - a beginner's guide" by Jason T. Roff).However, the book is a serious piece of work on the UML subject coming from the most authorized voices on the topic.The book is rather for people with good experience in OOP and some experience in UML.

This is the best book on UML. An excellent book on all aspects of UML methodology. This book comes from those who framed the methodology and that aspect makes it more valuable to the reader, experienced or otherwise. The book starts of with reasons for modeling with real world examples. For a novice, this will be the best introduction to modeling - why is it needed in the first place. The book also describes the evolution of UML (best practises of OOSE,OMT and Booch) which will benefit people in all levels of software engineering. Any modeling technique needs to address the following three components a) Structural b) Behavioral and c) Architecture. This book contains explanations for all of the above three components in separate sections. Even advance behavioral/structural modeling is discussed. The structural modeling is described with explanations on a) Objects & classes b) relationship between classes c) class diagramsThe behavioral modeling is described with explanations on a) use case diagrams b) interaction diagrams c) activity diagrams and importantly d) state charts to name a few.The architecture modeling is described with explanations on deployment, collaborations and component diagrams to name a few.I would recommend interested OO developers/managers to acquire this book as a reference material for OO development needs.

This book is by far one of the best textbooks I have ever read. It has a clear, consistent organization of each chapter throughout the book. I really enjoyed the books iterative format in which concepts and terminology were briefly introduced, and then brought up time and again to build on earlier lessons. It is a great way to learn because the overall picture is given from the beginning and then expanded upon throughout the book.Another plus to this book is the many mini-tutorials on how to apply the UML to real world problems.I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is serious about becoming a better software developer.

The book is a good overview of all the basic UML concepts, and illustrates in a very simple way how UML can be applied to develop software systems.

This is what the title claims it is - a users guide. I think what is missing and what should come next is a good 3-level interactive tutorial: beginners, intermediate, advanced.All of the other 125 UML 'books' I have read are either way too shallow (e.g. UML Distilled) or way too language (e.g. with Java) dependent!! That is, to be strictly a UML users guide.The next books should be generically titled UML Interactive Tutorial: Intermediate.If you are a computer language theorist, this will not be the reference you need because it does not technically address those issues. So ... read the more technical papers!!To be more complete, you should have the entire set of AWL UML books on your shelf, not just this one.More to follow ...