Object-Oriented Methods

Major features of this edition:

• NEW! detailed chapter covering middleware and migration strategies
• NEW! chapter describing best practice for analysis and design, with in-depth focus on architecture and patterns plus a concise presentation of the Catalysisr method for component-based development
• NEW! revised coverage of requirements, featuring detailed description of the SOMA approach
• NEW! coverage of Java, in addition to other object-oriented programming languages

• significantly revised coverage of object- oriented databases to address new and increasingly mature products review of processes and project management including RUP and OPEN Process, and guidance on testing and UI design
• new appendices summarising the UML notation and background survey of 50 object-oriented methods
• self-test questions and model answers on accompanying web site: www.trireme.com

• Preface to the third edition
• 1 Basic concepts
• 2 The benefits of object-oriented programming and methods
• 3 Object-oriented and object-based programming languages
• 4 Distributed computing, middleware and migration
• 5 Database technology
• 6 Object-oriented analysis and design
• 7 Architecture, patterns and components
• 8 Requirements engineering
• 9 Process and project management
• 10 Applications
• Appendix A Fuzzy objects: inheritance under uncertainty
• Appendix B Seminal OOA/D methods
• Appendix C UML notation summary
• Appendix D Answers to selected exercises
• Glossary of terms
• References and bibliography
• Name index
• Subject index