You'll find a definitive collection of up-to-date readings covering most of the phases of the software development process, emphasizing the object-oriented process throughout. The object-oriented method for developing systems has become predominant in many new applications. The advent of Java, CORBA and DCOM - all object oriented - ensure the importance of object orientation in the distributed environment of the future as well. Much of the literature has concentrated on design and a number of these papers are included. In addition, there are papers that cover the descriptions of major methodologies and tools, many by originators such as Booch, Coplein, Jacobson, Mellor and Stroustrup.