Objects, Components, And Frameworks With Uml: The Catalysis(sm) Approach

." . . We found Catalysis to be the first comprehensive object-oriented methodology to unify the concepts of objects, frameworks, and component technologies."
John McGehee, Senior Architect, Texas Instruments Works Project

"Objects, Components, and Frameworks with UML: The Catalysis Approach" is where you will learn how to use objects, frameworks, and UML notation to design, build, and reuse component-based software. Catalysis is a rapidly emerging UML-based method for object and component-based development. It provides you with a clear meaning of and systematic uses for the UML notation.

"The Catalysis Approach" explains how patterns can be characterized as model frameworks. Through the application of frameworks in requirements, specifications, architectures, and designs, you will find that all models contain recurring patterns of structure, behavior, and refinement. This opens the way to building models and designs rapidly by adapting and composing both generic and domain-specific modeling frameworks.

Key Features of Catalysis:

• Shows how to build clear shared business models
• Defines essential shared vocabulary in a precise way
• Points out critical requirements and design decisions early while abstracting detail
• Uses UML as a powerful, unambiguous communication tool between analysts and designers
• Makes families of adaptable systems from coherent kits of pluggable components
• Assigns interface-centric design and composition to components
• Creates robust components, using techniques of precise specification and design
• Applies and extracts reusable frameworks for designs, specifications, and architectures

In development and usewith the authorsi many clients since 1992, Catalysis has influenced the UML standard and the MicrosoftTI component-definition model as implemented in the Microsoft Repository. Its simple core, on-demand precision, and separation of concerns support component technologies and standards based on Java, CORBA, COM+, and RMODP.
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Using the Catalysis approach, Objects, Components, and Frameworks with UML details the recurring patterns within UML. Catalysis is a rapidly emerging UML-based method for component and framework-based development with objects, and it is gaining popularity because it allows developers to more easily build business models, requirement specs, designs, and code. The authors describe a unique UML-based approach to precise specification of component interfaces using a type model. By identifying patterns in this notational language, the authors provide application developers and system architects with well-defined and reusable techniques that help them build open distributed object systems from components and frameworks.