Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!amdahl!ikluft From: ikluft@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: OOP diagrams, visual semantics Summary: no standards exist Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 18:23:58 GMT References: <34723@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: ikluft@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) Distribution: na Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Systems Software, Santa Clara CA Lines: 30 In article <34723@cup.portal.com> spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page) writes: >I'm documenting an object-oriented system with lots of objects. I need to >come up with pictures showing class inheritance, instances of classes, [...] >Yikes! There's a lot of semantic information to get across. Clearly you >can't communicate everything about a system in a single diagram. [...] > o are there any "standards" for OOP diagrams? Do the latest > flow-chart stencils have the extra symbols for OOP? ;-) There are no standards. But a lot of examples are starting to show up. > o are there any particular visual presentations of OOP systems that > you like? Book references please. I don't remember the publishers but all of these are currently available in bookstores. 1) Object Oriented Design with Applications, by Grady Booch 2) Object Oriented Analysis and Information Modeling, by Shlaer & Mellor 3) Object Oriented Analysis, by Coad and Yourdon These all have their own styles. If you have the book budget, get all three and develop your own style from what you like in each. (That's my approach.) Otherwise (if you can only afford one book), I found Booch's notation to be the cleanest. -- Ian Kluft ----------------------------- # Another flying fanatic UTS Systems Software \ |--*--| / # PP-ASEL Amdahl Corporation C - 172 /\___/\ Skyhawk # Member AOPA, ACM, UPE Santa Clara, CA o o o #include