Overview Updates   Executable UML: How to Build Class Models Amazon 440 pages 1st edition (January 15, 2002) Prentice Hall PTR; ISBN: 0130674796 The practical guide to developing class models with Executable UML. In Executable UML, Leon Starr shows how to build precise class models that form the foundation of rigorous software specifications. These specifications can be tested, debugged and optimized to generate code for multiple languages and platforms. Leon presents a wide range of examples from his projects in the fields of science and engineering, focusing on real-time environments where precise and accurate software specification is especially critical. Using the materials in his classic How to Build Shlaer-Mellor Object Models as a starting point, Leon offers an introduction to Executable UML class models, expressing all diagrams in Executable UML notation with more object modeling techniques. Coverage includes: Executable UML classes and attributes associations and relationships binary associations and association classes specialization-generalization relationships Loop constraints Reflexive, network, linear, and tree patterns for effective object modeling. Whether you're creating technical or business applications, Executable UML gives you the tools you need to build reliable software, readily deployed on a variety of specialized hardware and software platforms.   Already own "How to Build Shlaer-Mellor Object Models?" You may be wondering what's been added or changed in the Executable UML class modeling book. Here's a quick summary. All model diagrams now in Executable UML notation Executable UML terminology is used throughout New in the UML book What is Executable UML? Loops and Constraints Naming Associations Where to Learn More Generalization Relationships and Inheritance Aggregation and Composition The Model Compilation Translation concept Referential attribute usage Old typos and model errors fixed. New typos introduced! And if that's not enough, there are at least two new ants!