Object-oriented software development with UML. Incl. 1 CD-ROM (Q2757775)

This is one more textbook about UML, the ``Unified Modelling Language'' for object-oriented software design. In any case, it proves again UML being most important for software designers in adequately modelling requirements for an application. Is it a top book about the topic? Besides short listings of literature references and a (rather short) index of terms it explains in three chapters (with 164 pages) -- Basic terms of object-oriented software design (40 pages), -- Unified modelling language (82 pages) and -- Steps from analysis to implementation (42 pages). All chapters are well illustrated, there are exercises, actual state-of-the-art technology (patterns) covered, a lot (too much for an introductory text book ?) of topics discussed (sometimes more phenomenal than really developped for essentials). Of some specific interest is the discussion of a pattern-based description language ``Pal'' developped by the author and his co-workers. The CD-Rom which comes with the book supplements the tutorial aspects of the presentation and gives demonstration capabilities for ``Pal''. Well, is it a top book about the topic? I think, with the modest price it is good for an introduction but will need further, more deep study to really becoming able to apply UML in strong projects. I am not happy with some formulations, e.g., ``mit fast hundertprozentiger Sicherheit'' (page 120), ``Einfach-/Mehrfachvererbung (``to inherit'' should be translated by ``erben''; the legator/superclass ``vererbt'' to, regularly, more than one inheritor/subclasses; an inheritor may ``erben'' from one or more legators -- in a text book for students the terminology for this very important terms of object-oriented work should be precise whatever wrong jargon is widely used!), somewhere in the text/CD-ROM you find ``Resource'' instead of ``Ressource'' (what is correct in German), page numbering is inconsistent between Table of Contents and actual text pages, there are references to student work (Studien- und Diplomarbeiten) making the book of not much worth outside the Rostock University.