Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications

This new edition of a best-seller gives object programmers the latest information on getting faster, better results with strategies and templates.
-- Covers the three leading object modeling notations, Coad, OMT and the important new Unified (Booch-Rumbaugh) methodology.
-- Presents 177 state-of-the-art strategies and 31 patterns for object model development.
-- By the world's leading experts in object-oriented modeling.Up-to-the-minute guidance on object modeling, from three of the world's leading experts.

This book presents 177 strategies and 31 patterns (templates) for achieving the best possible results with object modeling in all three leading methodologies: Coad, OMT and Unified. The new edition includes 29 new strategies, including: using feature milestones to deliver results more quickly; extracting useful content from data models; using patterns to discover new features, separating definition from usage; when to use -- or not use -- inheritance; how to decide whether you need an attribute or something more; and why you should nearly always ask for more than a data value.