HTML Edition The original hardcover textbook edition (ISBN 0-201-56355-X) of Object-Oriented System Development by Dennis de Champeaux, Douglas Lea, and Penelope Faure was published by Addison Wesley, copyright © 1993 by Hewlett-Packard Company. You can purchase this book directly from Addison-Wesley by phone at (800)822-6339, or order it through most bookstores. All parties involved have graciously granted permission to create this HTML edition, maintained by Doug Lea. Mail comments to dl@cs.oswego.edu.

Contents

Preface

1 Overview

Scope; Objects; Development Paradigms; Development Phases; Summary;

Part 1: Analysis

2 Introduction to Analysis

Purpose; Models; Process; Summary;

3 Object Statics

Instances; Classes; Attributes; Attribute Features; Constraints; Identifying Objects and Classes; Summary;

4 Object Relationships

Relationships; Collections; Identifying Relationships; Summary;

5 Object Dynamics

Describing Behavior; Transition Networks; Examples; Reducing Complexity; Summary;

6 Object Interaction

Transitions; Sending and Receiving Events; Interaction Notations; Examples; Summary;

7 Class Relationships

Property Inheritance; Subclasses; Multiple Inheritance; Sibling Relationships; Set Operations; Inheritance of Relations; Summary;

8 Instances

Subclasses and Instances; Metaclasses; Parametric Instances ; Summary;

9 Ensembles

Ensembles; Other Decomposition Constructs; Ensembles as Systems; Summary;

10 Constructing a System Model

Requirements Fragment; Use Cases; Subsystems; Vocabulary; Classes; Ensembles; Model; Summary;

11 Other Requirements

Resources; Timing; Other Constraints; Summary;

12 The Analysis Process

Software Development Process; Default Sequence of Steps; OO Analysis of the OO Analysis Process; Alternative Processes; Tools; Summary;

13 Domain Analysis

Models; Reuse; Summary;

14 The Grady Experience

Part II: Design

15 From Analysis to Design

Continuity; Transformation; Design Phases; Design Criteria; Managing Design; Summary;

16 Description and Computation

Translating Analysis Models; From Abstract to Concrete; Composing Classes; Controlling Transitions; Generic Classes; Generating Instances; Design for Testability; Transformation and Composition; Summary;

17 Attributes in Design

Defining Attributes; Concrete Attributes; Views; Exports; Composition and Inheritance; Summary;

18 Relationships in Design

Relationships; Collections; Coordinators; Relations versus Composites; Summary;

19 Designing Transitions

States and Guards; Atomicity; Timing Constraints; Concrete Transitions; Summary;

20 Interaction Designs

Callbacks; Replies; Invocations; Control Flow; Summary;

21 Dispatching

Selection; Resolution; Routing; Summary;

22 Coordination

Joint Actions; Controlling Groups; Open Systems; Summary;

23 Clustering Objects

Clustering; Cluster Objects; System Tools and Services; Persistence; Summary;

24 Designing Passive Objects

Transformations; Storage Management; Passive Objects in C++; Summary;

25 Performance Optimization

Optimization and Evolution; Algorithmic Optimization; Performance Transformations; Optimization in C++; Summary;

26 From Design to Implementation

Testing; Performance Assessment; Summary;

Appendix: Notation Summary

OAN; ODL;

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Related information

• Errata for the first printing of the hardcover book version.

• A brief overview of some of the book (mainly topics from Part II dealing with distributed objects) is available as a set of HTML-ized or Postscript slides from a 1993 presentation.
  

• FAQ answers:
  • Dennis wrote most of Part I with the assistance of Penelope; Doug wrote Part II. A few sections of chapters 6, 7, 8, and 15 were written jointly. It was written in 1991-3.
  • You can read Parts I and II pretty much independently. Some people like to start with chapter 16.
  • Many of the pages were generated mechanically from the book form. They are not laid out or hyperlinked together as well as they would be if they were written originally in HTML. Sorry.
  • While the book is mostly self-contained, people report that it does not serve as an introductory OO text. It helps to have had some previous exposure to basic OO concepts.
  • The main differences between the accounts in this book and most other OO texts lie in (1) its non-commital stance about particular OO `methods' and languages (2) its focus on the analysis and logical design of potentially distributed OO systems. However, it does not address many nuts-and-bolts issues surrounding the use of real OO languages, tools, and systems for distribution in part because so few of them (of appropriate production quality) were available at the time of writing.
  • While Part II consists largely of OO Design Patterns, they are not phrased as such, mainly because this was written before now-common ideas about presenting, structuring and documenting patterns arose.
  • While there are many things we'd do differently if we were rewriting this book, there are no current plans for a second edition. However, Dennis has written a book on OO Development Process and Metrics, and Doug has written one on Concurrent Programming in Java.
  • No, there are not postscript versions or any other copyable files available. If you want your own copy, you'll have to buy the book. Also, please do not mirror these pages. (We don't even have rights to give you permission to do so.)

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