Appendix A. Introduction to UML for Analysis and Design

Designing software and implementing those designs are two different things altogether, and they require different tools, paradigms, and mindsets to pull them off correctly. Developers have a wondrous array of tools for implementing designs. Armed with a Java JDK, the EJB specification, and an integrated development environment (I am fond of Borland JBuilder), they can whip out well-structured code at a furious pace. Trying to design systems with these same tools and specifications, however, just doesn’t work. Java is a language for imparting implementation information to a java compiler, ...

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