This article describes a precise form of use case that promotes the specification of inter-actor options and alternative course conditions....   Read Article.

Rational Software Corporation : This PowerPoint presentation presents the following: benefits of visual modeling, history of the UML, visual modeling with UML, and the Rational Iterative Development Process....   Read Article.

Consistency Analysis of UML Class and Sequence Diagrams using Attributed Graph Grammars : This slide presentation covers the following topics: UML diagrams and consistency, relations between UML class and sequence diagrams and resulting consistency problems, UML class and sequence diagrams as attributed graphs and graph grammars, and algorithms for...   Read Article.

Object Oriented Analysis and Design using the UML Power Point Presentation....   Read Article.

The objectives of this PowerPoint presentation are: understand the purpose of architectural analysis and where in the lifecycle it is performed, describe a representative architectural pattern and set of analysis mechanisms and how they affect the architecture, understand the rationale and considerations that support the architectural decisions, and...   Read Article.

UML Diagrams for Chapter 2 of Analysis Patterns: This paper contains UML diagrams of analysis patterns for chapter 2 of Analysis Patterns by Martin Fowler....   Read Article.

This slide presentation covers the following topics: how class models are used, class model perspectives, attributes and operations of classes, associations, generalization and inheritance, and aggregation and composition....   Read Article.

This book on UML contains the following chapters: primary artifacts of UML, motivation, goals, and scope of UML, past, present and future of UML, UML semantics, foundation, behavioral elements, general mechanisms, UML notation guide (background and diagram elements), model management, general extension mechanisms, static structure diagrams, use case...   Read Article.

In a UML model, different aspects of a system are covered by different types of diagrams and this bears the risk that an overall system specification becomes inconsistent or incomplete. Hence, it is important to provide means to check the consistency and completeness of a UML model. This problem is addressed in this report by integrating the information...   Read Article.

the adoption of XML will enable the Web to enter a new dimension of use and usefulness. In this chapter from his book, Dave Carlson shows you how to recombine the XML information content with a presentation that is appropriate for the viewing device ......   Read Article.

Executable UML is one pillar supporting the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative, the purpose of which is to enable specification of systems using models. Learn how this technology will affect the way organizations function in the future.nnn...   Read Article.

How can UML can be used to graphically describe the extends and implements keywords of the Java programming language? In this second article in a series introducing UML from a programmer's perspective, Stephen Palmer discusses the options....   Read Article.

Other types of diagrams defined in the UML specification may be less directly related to Java source code than the more glamorous class and interaction diagrams, but your UML toolkit is incomplete without them. In this fifth and final article in a series introducing UML from a Java programmer's perspective, Stephen Palmer takes a brief look at the other...   Read Article.