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The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
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Author: James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
List Price: $59.99
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ISBN: 020130998X
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (23 December, 1998)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 67,413
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Too Theorectical
This book is too theorectical. Needs to elucidate for readers with examples. Unless you are an UML professor or an abstract UML guru, this book does not help to learn UML. Would help if authors shows UML mapping to say, C++ and Java.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Accurate, complete (for UML 1.*); not for UML beginners
This book is one in a series of three by the three amigos. It is certainly the most authoritative and accurate of all three (the other two being very fuzzy in places). The book consists of the following major sections:I: Background (some history) II: UML concepts (static, use case, statechart and other 'views') III: Reference This book is pure syntax and can answer most of the questions that you might have about UML syntax. However, this book is not for beginners because it assumes (in my opinion) that you have applied UML to real-life situations. I find the book to be well-written (even if it is fairly dry) and compares favouably with other books in the UML series. There are different ways that you can use this book. First, you can consult it to check of you are using the correct UML syntax in your applications. Second, you can use it to deteremine what you have still to learn in UML (for example, activity diagrams, statecharts). This book should complement the other, more application-specific UML books. For example, it could be seen as a follow-up of Fowler's somewhat outdated UML Primer. It would have been a good idea if the authors had included a complete test case showing how all the specific 'views' are documented and how they fit together. UML has about 11 different views and which one to use and when will be a major undertaking if you are embarking on a first project. This book will be outdated as soon as the new UML 2.0 specification is ready. Do the authors have plans for a new version of their book "UML Reference 2.0"?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent reference
This book is a comprehensive, well-written reference that stays by my side whenever I'm modeling. The accompanying CD-Rom has the book's text stored as a PDF file and is arguably even more useful because it is hyperlinked. A few others reviewers disagree, but their complaints suggest a misunderstanding of the book's intent. This book is a "Reference Manual." It is not a tutorial and does not cover tangental topics (like good/bad OOAD practices). Think of it as a UML encyclopedia. If you want a concise description of every UML diagram and notation then this is the book you want.
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