Foreword

When I agreed to write the foreword for this book, I expected to battle my way through a morass of technical jargon. I was willing to do this because the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an approach widely used at the Raytheon Garland, Texas, site and I wanted to expand my knowledge of it. I must honestly admit that I started reading the text with dread and with a rather basic (and somewhat cynical) question: Other than a general understanding of what UML is, why should I care about it?

In my position as Director of Software Engineering, I rarely need detailed knowledge of development languages and tools, not to mention the fact that these development aids are constantly changing. UML, however, seems to have caught the attention of ...

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