10. Creating Object Models
I believe very strongly that learning the fundamental OO concepts should come before learning any specific modeling tools. Thus, the placement of this chapter was somewhat problematic. In many ways, this chapter could go first, because the Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams are present throughout this book, including in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Object-Oriented Concepts.” Finally, it was decided to place this chapter at the end of the “conceptual” chapters, which I consider to be Chapters 1–9. The remaining chapters cover some specific application technology issues as well as concepts.
This chapter is a brief overview of the UML class diagram notation used in this book. It is not a comprehensive tutorial on ...
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