$PH/06f522/06f522aareadme{.mht,.txt}	- RJL060709
[$PH is http://www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner]


I would like to welcome interested graduate and senior students 
to course 91.522 Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. 
This course will be held again this fall, on Tuesday evening 
530-830 PM on the Lowell campus of Middlesex Community College.
It begins a sequence that also includes  91.523 and 91.524
 Software Engineering I and II.

In the fall 2006 semester, course 91.522 OOAD (06f522) 
will use a new textbook:
	[UMLP]: Craig Larman: Applying UML and Patterns, 
Introd. to OOA and D and Iterative Development, 3rd Ed., PH-PTR 2005.  
Prentice-Hall's web page for UMLP (older 2nd. ed.) is at: 
	http://authors.phptr.com/larman/uml_ooad/index.html

Larman's text was highly recommended by previous students 
as the most readable tutorial on the subject of OOAD. 
His third edition applies Design Patterns [DPs] within an agile 
or incremental test-driven style of development.  
Larman uses the notation of  Unified Modeling Language  version 2 
which includes Model-Driven Architecture [UML2/MDA].  

The goal of UML2/MDA is to develop models that are portable 
across a variety of implementation languages and platforms. 
These models should be detailed and precise enough to be translated 
automatically into executable code. They should also include  
'Design Contracts' that specify testable software behavior. 

The goal of DPs is to provide a variety of common idioms 
that designers can share and reuse over a wide variety of 
software application domains.  DPs are reusable abstractions 
containing fragments of data structure and/or behavior above 
the class level. In principle these can be composed into 
abstract (portable) models of software designs. 

The syllabus content will span many topics 
in the previous syllabus at 	
	www.cs.uml.edu/~lechner/04f522/04f522SyllabusUpdate040914.htm
[to be revised to synchronize with [UMLP].