OVERVIEW

This book describes a use case–driven UML-based method for the modeling and design of software architectures, including object-oriented software architectures, client/server software architectures, service-oriented architectures, component-based software architectures, concurrent and real-time software architectures, and software product line architectures. The book provides a unified approach to designing software architectures and describes the special considerations for each category of software architecture. In addition, there are four case studies, a client/server banking system, a service-oriented architecture for an online shopping system, a distributed component-based emergency monitoring system, and a real-time automated guided vehicle system.

This book describes a UML-based software modeling and design method called COMET (Collaborative Object Modeling and Architectural Design Method). COMET is a highly iterative object-oriented software development method that addresses the requirements, analysis, and design modeling phases of the object-oriented development life cycle.

The book is intended to appeal to readers who wish to design software architectures using a systematic UML-based method that starts from requirements modeling with use cases, through static and dynamic modeling, to software design based on architectural design patterns.

WHAT THIS BOOK PROVIDES

Various textbooks on the market describe object-oriented analysis and design concepts and methods. This book addresses the specific needs of designing software architectures. It addresses UML-based design of software architectures, starting with use cases for requirements modeling, static modeling with class diagrams, and dynamic modeling with object interaction analysis and state machine modeling, through software design with architectural design patterns.