Practical Object Oriented Design

Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has 23 years of strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in Information Technology, followed later with three years of academic work at the University of Western Sydney and six years of previous part-time academic work. Bhuvan earned his Doctorate from the University of Technology, Sydney. His thesis was related to Effect of Granularity of Object Oriented Design on Modeling an Enterprise. He is the author of seven books including Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2 Models (John Wiley, 2005) and Process Quality Assurance for UML-based Projects (Addison-Wesley, 2003). He has published numerous papers and presented and chaired seminars and conferences. As a Senior Manager with Dow Jones, he had won the Computerworld Object Developers Award, for `Best use of Object-orientation across the organisation¿. He leads the Emerging Technologies sub-group at the School of Computing and IT, University of Western Sydney; Bhuvan is Fellow of the Australian Computer Society; Convener, Object-oriented Special Interest Group, and Branch Executive Committee member of the ACS NSW, Rotarian and previous Mentor Director at TiE.org Sydney.

Introduction
1. Revisiting Object-Orientation & the UML
2. Fundamentals of Object-Orientation; Roles & Process Components for Design; UML Extensibiltiy Mechanisms
3. Advanced Class Definitions
4. Advanced Class Relationships and Diagrams; Multiplicities
5. Advanced Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams; State chart Diagrams
6. Mapping OO Design to Relational DB Design
Appendix A: Case Study
References