To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java. To effectively use ...

In our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction. The purpose of a class diagram is to ...

One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach (see article 1) is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. There is a widespread misconception that modeling ...

Unified Modeling Language (UML) represents a logical view of your application. This is distinct from the physical view represented by the Class Diagrams available in all SKUs of Visual Studio.

Several design patterns are defined to make systems more flexible and extensible. The main goal of this work is to show how the representation of these kinds of patterns, which we refer to as ...

A software-development tool for understanding complex systems, the unified modeling language can confer several benefits, including reduced training costs, more-precise standards, and higher-quality ...

Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 12, "Class Designer," of Jeff Levinson and David Nelson's book, Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System, with permission from Apress [2005, ISBN: ...