Preface

Summary

THIS BOOK is about:

• The Unified Modeling Language (UML), and how to use it effectively

• Architecting your applications so that they're maintainable and extensible

• Analysis, so you know what you have to build

• Design techniques, so that you know how you're going to build your application

• Creating applications for stand-alone, client/server, and distributed environments

• Using both relational and object-oriented (OO) databases to make your objects persistent

• Collecting the right metrics to improve your development approach

• Applying OO patterns to improve the quality of your applications

• Testing approaches to ensure that your applications work

• User interface design, so your users can actually work with the systems that you build

• Coding applications in a way that makes them maintainable and extensible

Welcome to Building Object Applications. To make this book easier to work with it is divided into the following five parts:

Part I Introduction

1. Chapter 1 Where We've Been Before—Object-Oriented Concepts and Techniques

Part II Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Architecture

1. Chapter 2 Bubbles and Lines—Useful Diagrams for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

2. Chapter 3 Improving Your Design—A Class-Type Architecture

3. Chapter 4 Reusing Your Development Efforts—Object-Oriented Patterns

4. Chapter 5 Development in the 90s and Beyond—Designing Distributed Object-Oriented Applications