Section C.3. ...Add a Dash of OMT...

C.3. ...Add a Dash of OMT...

If Booch's OOAD brought class modeling and Jacobson's OOSE gave us use cases, state transitions, and interaction modeling, then James Rumbaugh added his object modeling technique (OMT). Although Booch's class and object diagrams were well loved by his adopters (those clouds again), it was the class and object diagram notation from OMT that most influenced what was to come. The OMT's notation for its object view was arguably simpler to draw, even if its interclass relationships were not as intuitive as Booch's (see Figure C-3).

Figure C-3. This diagram is easy to read, even for a novice developer

That is not to say that object and class diagram notation was all that OMT added to the mix. The OMT also had notation for diagrams showing the dynamic qualities of software, namely sequence diagrams.