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From: cpp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Chuck Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Graphical Notations
Keywords: graphics, OO, notations
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Date: 26 Dec 90 22:23:14 GMT
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My favorite object-oriented graphical notation is the Object Modeling
Technique, developed by Mary Loomis, James Rumbaugh, and Ashwin Shah.
This is a very simple, yet powerful, and language independent notation which
includes inheritance, relations, and aggregations, and has been used here
at Calma and elsewhere for over four years to design CAD/CAM and other
demanding applications.

There is now a book which presents this notation along with a complete
OO modeling and design approach:

    Object-Oriented Modeling and Design. James Rumbaugh, M. Blaha, 
    W. Premerlani, F. Eddy, and W. Lorenson.  Prentice-Hall, 1991.
    ISBN 0-13-629841-9

It is also described in

    Loomis, M.E.S, Shah, A.V., Rumbaugh, J.  An Object Modeling Technique for
    Conceptual Design.  ECOOP-87.

and, briefly illustrated in

    Shah, A.V., Hamel, J.H., Borsari, R.A., Rumbaugh, J.E.  DSM: An Object-
    Relationship Modeling Language.  OOPSLA 1989.

This notation, along with basic OO design concepts, is frequently taught to
programmers with no previous OO experience, and most begin using it almost
immediately.

[I'm speaking only for myself, etc.]