[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Quoth Stefan Seefeld:
> > that I should use simple (dashed) line from the righmost control point to the
> > text box., so sorry, it was my mistake (the UML specs seem to have changed since
> > 'Design Patterns' was released).
>
> Actually, the notation in Design Patterns doesn't even claim to *be*
> UML, IIRC... it's a hybrid of ideas from the various modelling notations
> that pre-date UML. Come to that, the book itself pre-dates UML I think!
>
> Of course I could be wrong, I can't lay my hands on a copy of the book
> right now -- but check the appendix on notation.
Yeah, /Design Patterns/ is *not* UML, but Fowler's own modelling
language. The definitive UML is in Booch, Jacobson, and Rumbaugh: /The
Unified Modelling Language User Guide/. A shorter but still good
version is Fowler's /UML Distilled/.
Cheers,
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey W. Baker
Critical Path, Inc
Speaking for myself only, of course
