Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The, 2nd Edition
By: Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson

For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. As the de facto standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project stakeholders. The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability. Its inherent expressiveness allows users to model everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems.

Large-Scale Software Architecture: A Practical Guide using UML
By: Garland, Jeff; Anthony, Richard
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Software architecture is critical to the success of software development projects. Unfortunately, many projects are unsuccessful in their attempts to leverage architecture-based development, especially large -scale projects. Lost in a myriad of possible UML diagrams, project teams often resort to ineffective ad-hoc techniques. The purpose of this book is to enable software architects, their managers, and other development team members to become more effective in directing the course of large-scale software development projects. Written by two experienced architects that have worked in the trenches on many projects, this book provides practical advice for all software teams about developing and capturing critical software architectural concerns. more...

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Design and Use of Software Architectures - Adopting and Evolving a Product-Line Approach
By: Jan Bosch

In the ever-changing world of software development, organizations are gradually realizing the need for an explicit software architecture for their systems. And software engineers are potentially faced with the challenge of developing multiple, inter-related systems whilst pressured by financial and lead-time constraints. It is thus essential to establish a well-defined design method in order to build high-quality, reliable, and easily maintainable individual or families of systems - the question is how to approach this? This book provides an achievable answer. The author proposes a method for designing software architectures, and product line architectures, which is based on his experience in industry and research, The first part of the book introduces the design method, examining its three key phases - functionality-based architecture design, architecture assessment and architecture transformation - in detail. The second half of the book explores the concept of software product lines, incorporating elements of architectural design, component-based software engineering and reuse. It takes you through the process of designing, developing and evolving a product-line approach, including the development of software architecture and components for the family, instantiation of family members and evolution of assets. It also examines the pros and cons of a number of organizational models that can be applied when putting a software product line approach in to practice. If you are a software architect or engineer involved in designing software systems architectures, this book will give you the resources you need for success.

• features real-life case studies covering control and real-time systems, networking, and telecommunications industry examples to illustrate how the method and processes work in practice
• provides a systematic approach that employs both qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessments
• contains key chapters on approaches to component development, and use of object-oriented frameworks as components in software product lines
• includes sections that can be read as stand-alone, depending on your level of knowledge and experience and your specific area of interest.

Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop

The developers who created SharpDevelop give you an inside track on application development with a guided tour of the source code for SharpDevelop. They will show you the most important code features and explain how you can use these techniques in your own projects. You will gain valuable experience of building an application on this scale, learning from the decisions, mistakes, problems and solutions that lead to the current version on SharpDevelop.

The SharpDevelop team will show you how to:

• Build a highly modular application
• Provide a flexible, extendable, customizable user interface
• Manage the efforts of translators for efficient internationalization
• Represent and manipulate text efficiently
• Code search and replace functionality
• Construct reusable controls
• Implement a parser to provide syntax highlighting and auto-completion as users type
• Use reflection to access information about .NET classes
• Create a Windows Forms designer
• Generate code programmatically

As Wrox press is no more, publishing rights to the book 'Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop' have been bought by Apress. Together with Apress, we have made the book available in digital form for free. The PDF file and the accompanying source code are available for download here: Download@Apress

Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform: Enterprise Edition

Describes a standard approach to designing multitier enterprise applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. Rather than focus on individual technologies, this work looks at guidelines for distributing application functionality across tiers and choosing among design options within each tier. The material is accompanied by the documentation of a sample application which the authors hope will illustrate the broader issues of principles and technologies.