This title provides expert knowledge on all facets of today's UML standard, helping developers who are encountering UML on the job for the first time to be more productive. For the novice, the authors illustrate key diagram types such as class , use case , state machine , activity , and implementation . After a tour of basic document types, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual provides an alphabetical listing of more than 350 UML terms.
Entries range from a sentence or two to several pages in length.
Though you will certainly need to be acquainted with software engineering principles, this reference will serve the working software developer well. As the authors note, this isn't UML for Dummies , but neither is it an arcane academic treatise. The authors succeed in delivering a readable reference that will answer any UML question, no matter how common or obscure. The authors have done an outstanding job with this UML book. The definitions of the terms are the best I have seen.