Reviews for Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Understanding System Development with UML 2.0

1. Great book for getting the big picture

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2005

   A colleague recommended this book to me, and I'm glad she did!

   My bosses have decided that all new projects will be developed using object technology. As a COBOL programmer, I was worried that I'd get lost in the transition. Having read this book, I've got a much better idea how all this stuff fits together.

   I can't agree with the previous reviewer that the Java examples are a problem. There's only as much as needed to show that object-oriented designs can be coded easily. I'm not one of these people who believes that code is a dirty word if you're an analyst :-)

2. Confused and overly programatic - close to USELESS

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2005

   As an expeienced UMLer and professor looking for a text which could be used both to accompany a UML course and for student self study I looked at this book.

   My conclusion is that
   (a) it is not conceptually clear,
   (b) it relies too much on established Java programming skills, and
   (c) much of the book functions at a design level - i.e it does not give a requisite perspective as to the difference between analysis and design, and it does not encourage the growth of the object-oriented analysis skills needed to become effective with UML.

   This book is a waste of money, and I would recommend that potential purchasers either consider the UML Tookit book, or perhaps Learn UML in 24 hours.