Chapter 1 About This Book

Subject

This book describes the PowerDesigner Object Oriented Model, including how to create an OOM, build each of the available diagrams, and generate and reverse engineer OO source files.

Audience

This book assumes that you are an experienced Windows user with some experience with object-oriented programming and UML.

Documentation primer

For information about the complete documentation set provided with PowerDesigner, see the "Getting Started with PowerDesigner" chapter of the Core Features Guide .

Typographic conventions

PowerDesigner documentation uses special typefaces to help you readily identify specific items:

monospace text (normal and bold)

Used for: Code samples, commands, compiled functions and files, references to variables.

Example: declare user_defined..., the BeforeInsertTrigger template.
bold text

Used for: New terms.

Example: A shortcut has a target object.
small caps

Used for: Key names.

Example: Press the enter key.

Bibliography

James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch – The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual – Addison Wesley, 1999

Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson – The Unified Modeling Language User Guide – Addison Wesley, 1999

Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh – The Unified Software Development Process – Addison Wesley, 1999

Doug Rosenberg, Kendall Scott – Use Case Driven Object Modeling With UML A Practical Approach – Addison Wesley, 1999

Michael Blaha, William Premerlani – Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for Database Applications – Prentice Hall, 1998

Geri Schneider, Jason P. Winters, Ivar Jacobson – Applying Use Cases: A Practical Guide – Addison Wesley, 1998

Pierre-Alain Muller – Instant UML – Wrox Press Inc, 1997

Bertrand Meyer – Object-Oriented Software Construction – Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 1997

Martin Fowler, Kendall Scott – UML Distilled Applying The Standard Object Modeling Language – Addison Wesley, 1997