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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

Scott W. Ambler
Affiliation:
AmbySoft Inc., Toronto
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Summary

THIS BOOK is about:

  • The Unified Modeling Language (UML), and how to use it effectively

  • Architecting your applications so that they're maintainable and extensible

  • Analysis, so you know what you have to build

  • Design techniques, so that you know how you're going to build your application

  • Creating applications for stand-alone, client/server, and distributed environments

  • Using both relational and object-oriented (OO) databases to make your objects persistent

  • Collecting the right metrics to improve your development approach

  • Applying OO patterns to improve the quality of your applications

  • Testing approaches to ensure that your applications work

  • User interface design, so your users can actually work with the systems that you build

  • Coding applications in a way that makes them maintainable and extensible

Welcome to Building Object Applications. To make this book easier to work with it is divided into the following five parts:

Part I Introduction

  1. Chapter 1 Where We've Been Before—Object-Oriented Concepts and Techniques

Part II Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Architecture

  1. Chapter 2 Bubbles and Lines—Useful Diagrams for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

  2. Chapter 3 Improving Your Design—A Class-Type Architecture

  3. Chapter 4 Reusing Your Development Efforts—Object-Oriented Patterns

  4. Chapter 5 Development in the 90s and Beyond—Designing Distributed Object-Oriented Applications

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Building Object Applications that Work
Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology
, pp. xxiii - xxviii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1997

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  • Preface
  • Scott W. Ambler, AmbySoft Inc., Toronto
  • Book: Building Object Applications that Work
  • Online publication: 07 September 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584947.002
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  • Preface
  • Scott W. Ambler, AmbySoft Inc., Toronto
  • Book: Building Object Applications that Work
  • Online publication: 07 September 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584947.002
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  • Preface
  • Scott W. Ambler, AmbySoft Inc., Toronto
  • Book: Building Object Applications that Work
  • Online publication: 07 September 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584947.002
Available formats
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