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Object-Oriented Methods: A Foundation, UML Edition
Make sense of object-oriented philosphy--and use it in both information systems development and business process reengineering. Completely revised and updated to comply with UML notation, this book gives techniques for serial, concurrent, and synchronized processing specification.
408 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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James Martin
97 books17 followersJames Martin (1933) is a British Information Technology consultant and author, who was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow (1977). James Martin was born in 1933 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England. He earned a degree in physics at the Keble College, Oxford. He was awarded an honorary DSc by Warwick University in July 2009. Martin joined IBM in 1959, and since the 1980s established several IT consultancy firms. Starting in 1981 with Dixon Doll and Tony Carter he established DMW (Doll Martin Worldwide) in London, UK, which was later renamed
James Martin Associates (JMA), which was (partly) bought by Texas Instruments Software in 1991. He later co-founded Database Design Inc. (DDI), also in Ann Arbor, to promulgate his database design techniques and to
develop tools to help implement them. After becoming the market leader in Information Engineering software, DDI was renamed KnowledgeWare and eventually purchased by Fran Tarkenton, who took it public. He lives on his own private island, Agar’s Island, in Bermuda. According to Computerworld’s 25th anniversary issue, he was ranked fourth among the 25 individuals who have most influenced the world of computer science. Martin is an expert in the field of systems design, Software development methodology, information engineering and computer-aided software engineering. He was one of the first to promote fourth-generation programming languages, and is the main developer of the Rapid Application Development methodology. In 2005 Martin donated $100 million to help establish The James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. This school aims to "formulate new concepts, policies and technologies that will make the future a better place to be". In 2009 Martin pledged up to an additional $50 million if it could be matched by other donors. This condition was met in April 2010.
James Martin Associates (JMA), which was (partly) bought by Texas Instruments Software in 1991. He later co-founded Database Design Inc. (DDI), also in Ann Arbor, to promulgate his database design techniques and to
develop tools to help implement them. After becoming the market leader in Information Engineering software, DDI was renamed KnowledgeWare and eventually purchased by Fran Tarkenton, who took it public. He lives on his own private island, Agar’s Island, in Bermuda. According to Computerworld’s 25th anniversary issue, he was ranked fourth among the 25 individuals who have most influenced the world of computer science. Martin is an expert in the field of systems design, Software development methodology, information engineering and computer-aided software engineering. He was one of the first to promote fourth-generation programming languages, and is the main developer of the Rapid Application Development methodology. In 2005 Martin donated $100 million to help establish The James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. This school aims to "formulate new concepts, policies and technologies that will make the future a better place to be". In 2009 Martin pledged up to an additional $50 million if it could be matched by other donors. This condition was met in April 2010.
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April 8, 2026
La versión original de este libro debe remontarse a 1992. Para el momento en que fue publicado constituyó un esfuerzo enciclopédico de abarcar tanto los conceptos básicos que subyacen el modelo de orientación a objetos, como todas las variantes notacionales y diagramáticas que terminarían unificándose en el Unified Modeling Language de 1997 y cuya versión más reciente, UML 2.5.1 fue aprobada en 2017.
El libro se pierde en el bosque de variantes diagramáticas - el resultado es que el libro es bastante más confuso de lo que podría ser. Considero que hoy en día constituye una referencia de mero interés histórico.
Recomiendo fuertemente al lector interesado en introducirse en el tema de buscar un libro más reciente.
Cabe mencionar que este libro es el primero de dos, lo sigue Métodos Orientados a Objetos: Consideraciones Prácticas de los mismos autores.
El libro se pierde en el bosque de variantes diagramáticas - el resultado es que el libro es bastante más confuso de lo que podría ser. Considero que hoy en día constituye una referencia de mero interés histórico.
Recomiendo fuertemente al lector interesado en introducirse en el tema de buscar un libro más reciente.
Cabe mencionar que este libro es el primero de dos, lo sigue Métodos Orientados a Objetos: Consideraciones Prácticas de los mismos autores.
Displaying 1 of 1 review