The Unified Modeling Language (UML), for the first time in the history of systems engineering, gives practitioners a common language. This concise quick reference explains how to use each component of the language, including its extension mechanisms and the Object Constraint Language (OCL). A tutorial with realistic examples brings those new to the UML quickly up to speed.
Sinan Si Alhir has breadth and depth in all phases of the systems development life cycle. With experience in high-level and low-level project work, and his broad and deep knowledge of technology and methodology, he focuses on delivering quality solution-oriented results within various application domains, using a multitude of technologies and methods. While tremendously enjoying his profession, Sinan Si Alhir also enjoys being intellectually and artistically active via reading and writing poetry and philosophy and listening to music, and he enjoys being physically active via walking and jogging. Furthermore, he is motivated by the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Rene Descartes, Georg Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others. But above all, it is his family that keeps him balanced, fulfilled, content, and makes it all worthwhile. Sinan Si Alhir maintains an informative Web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~salhir/