UML Distilled Second Edition A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
UML Distilled
Second Edition
A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modelling Language
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fowler, Martin.
UML distilled: a brief guide to the standard object modeling language/Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott.-2nd ed.
p. cm.-(Object technology series)
Includes biographical references and index.
(alk. paper)
1. Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
2. Computer software ”development.
3. UML (Computer science)
I. Scott, Kendall.
II. Title.
III. Series.
QA76.9.035F694 1999
005.1'2-dc21 99-33476
CIP
Copyright 2000 by Addison-Wesley
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