Rational Rose

Within the space of just a few years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has emerged as the design medium of choice for developing large-scale distributed object applications. The UML's standard semantics and notation for describing object structure and behavior make it particularly well suited to this function. Augmented by the Rational Unified Process, an extensive set of software development guidelines, and the Rational Rose visual modeling tool, the UML greatly facilitates the process of developing quality object-oriented applications that meet both deadlines and requirements. Fully updated and revised, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML is a comprehensive introduction and tutorial that shows how to use a tool (Rational Rose 2002), a process (the Rational Unified Process), and a language (the UML) to successfully visualize, specify, document, and construct a software system.

IBM Rational Rose Enterprise provides a common modeling language for enabling faster creation of quality software.

If you are a programmer, software architect, or analyst who wants comprehensive coverage of Rose 2002, this is the book for you–especially if you don't have much previous experience with UML. If you who have upgraded from a previous version of Rose, you will learn the new features of the latest release. This updated edition contains enhanced coverage of basic UML concepts and more focus on the key languages used with Rose today, especially Java 2, Visual Basic, and XML. You learn how to create UML diagrams of all kinds, how to create detailed object and data models, and how to generate automatically. You also learn how to reverse-engineer an existing application. The companion CD-ROM contains sample Rose 2002 models, the sample code generated from these models, and a collection of Rose scripts.

Learn all the soft and hard skills you need to take your architect design skills to the next level

Learn all the soft and hard skills you need to take your architect design skills to the next level!

"This is the best book on patterns since the Gang of Four's Design Patterns. The book manages to be a resource for three of the most important trends in professional programming: Patterns, Java, and UML."Larry O'Brien, Founding Editor, Software Development MagazineSince the release of Design Patterns in 1994, patterns have become one of the most important new technologies contributing to software design and development.