The Object Constraint Language

bull; Learn to better leverage the siginificant power of UML 2.0 and the Model-Driven Architecture standard bull; The OCL helps developers produce better software by adding vital definition to their designs bull; Updated to reflect the latest version of the standard - OCL 2.0

As part of the UML standard OCL has been adopted by both professionals in industry and by academic researchers and is one of the most widely used languages for expressing object-oriented system properties. This book contains key contributions to the development of OCL. Most papers are developments of work reported at different conferences and workshops. This unique compilation addresses many important issues faced by advanced professionals and researchers in object modeling like e.g. real-time constraints, type checking, and constraint modeling.

A practical guide to the OCL (part of the UML 1.1 standard of the OMG), this title is designed for software architects, designers, and developers. The authors' pragmatic approach and illustrative use of examples help application developers to quickly get up to speed with this important object modeling technique.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, 2000, held in York, UK in October 2000. The 36 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers and three panel outlines were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 abstracts and 82 papers submitted. The book offers topical sections on use cases, enterprise applications, applications, roles, OCL tools, meta-modeling, behavioral modeling, methodology, actions and constraints, patterns, architecture, and state charts.

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Egon Börger, contains 14 papers from a Dagstuhl Seminar, that cover a wide range of applied research, spanning from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications.

The Model Driven Architecture defines an approach where the specification of the functionality of a system can be separated from its implementation on a particular technology platform. The idea being that the architecture will be able to easily be adapted for different situations, whether they be legacy systems, different languages or yet to be invented platforms. MDA is therefore, a significant evolution of the object-oriented approach to system development. Advanced System Design with Java, UML and MDA describes the factors involved in designing and constructing large systems, illustrating the design process through a series of examples, including a Scrabble player, a jukebox using web streaming, a security system, and others. The book first considers the challenges of software design, before introducing the Unified Modelling Language and Object Constraint Language. The book then moves on to discuss systems design as a whole, covering internet systems design, web services, Flash, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Servlets, Javascript and JSP. In the final section of the book, the concepts and terminology of the Model Driven Architecture are discussed. To get the most from this book, readers will need introductory knowledge of software engineering, programming in Java and basic knowledge of HTML. * Examines issues raised by the Model-Driven Architecture approach to development * Uses easy to grasp case studies to illustrate complex concepts * Focused on the internet applications and technologies that are essential for students in the online age

The acclaimed beginner's book on object technology now presents UML 2.0, Agile Modeling, and object development techniques.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '98, held in Singapore, in November 1998. The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 95 submissions. The book is divided into chapters on conceptual modeling and design, user interface modeling, information retrieval on the Web, semantics and constraints, conceptual modeling tools, quality and reliability metrics, industrial experience in conceptual modeling, object-oriented database management systems, data warehousing, industrial case studies, object-oriented approaches.