Acknowledgments for the First Edition

Putting out a book this fast required a lot of help from people who went beyond the normal effort that goes into producing a book to do everything that much more quickly.

Kendall Scott played an important role in pulling together all the material and working over the text and graphics. As I've revised the book, he has continued to keep everything in shape, conquering a series of tasks that came with little notice and impossible deadlines.

The three amigos, Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and Jim Rumbaugh, have been full of support and advice. We have burned up many hours of transcontinental phone calls, and they have improved the book greatly (as well as my understanding of the UML).

A good slate of book reviewers is essential to doing a good job on a book. Not only did these reviewers give me the feedback I needed, they also turned around their comments in less than a week to keep to our tight deadlines. My thanks to: Simmi Kochhar Bhargava of Netscape Communications Corporation, Eric Evans, Tom Hadfield of Evolve Software, Inc., Ronald E. Jeffries, Joshua Kerievsky of Industrial Logic, Inc., Helen Klein of the University of Michigan, James Odell, and Vivek Salgar of Netscape Communications Corporation. Double thanks to Tom Hadfield because he did it twice! I want to thank Jim Odell for two things: first, for coordinating the Object Management Group (OMG) effort to get a single standard UML, which will be a big step forward for our industry; and second, for encouraging me to get into the object-oriented analysis and design field. Oh, and thanks for reviewing the book, too!

Thanks to Cindy for dealing with me being absent even when I was home.

I can't even imagine the difficulties that my editor, J. Carter Shanklin, and his assistant, Angela Buenning, went through to get this book out as quickly as they did. Whatever these difficulties were, I'm sure Carter and Angela deserve my thanks. The book industry is not designed to cope with changing a book every couple of months, but Carter and his team have done a good job of hiding that fact!

In keeping this book up to date, I've often had questions about specific details in the UML. Conrad Bock, Ivar Jacobson, Cris Kobryn, Jim Odell, Guus Ramackers, and Jim Rumbaugh have all gone out of their way to help me find these answers.

Numerous people have sent me messages pointing out various errors and omissions; there are too many to list here, I'm afraid, but I thank you all.

Last, but not least, thanks to my parents for helping me start off with a good education, from which all else springs.

Martin Fowler

Melrose, Massachusetts

April 1999

fowler@acm.org

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