Jason Kelley

COEN 181

Assignment #1

 

Date Due: Friday, Feburary 4, 2000

 

1) 30% Create your own home page for the COEN 181 class. Send the

  Instructor and the TA the URL address via e-mail by the Due date.

 

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/terminus/185

 

 

2) 70% Find five UML/RUP-related web sites are appealing to you. Write a

  short report reflecting the significance of the site for each of the sites.

  Post the report on your home page AND turn in a hardcopy.

 

  1. http://microgold.com/Stage/UML_FAQ.html

 

Microgold.com is a excellent site for anyone who really wants to learn about UML.  This site gives a fantastic overview of UML but also goes into vast detail explaining the language as well as giving tutorials.  I would recommend this site to beginners who are just starting to learn UML because it explains the foundation of UML as well as why one would use it. 

 

  1. http://www.umlworld.com/

 

UML World is actually an informational site about the UML conference that takes place every year.  From this site, people interested in going to the conference can find out what speakers, courses, and other special events are going to be available at upcoming shows.  This years conference will be the Crowne Plaza Hotel in New York, June 12 – 15.

 

  1. http://www.jeckle.de/unified.htm

 

I like this site because it contains all of UML specification documents.  It also contains links to other sites that have information and online documentation about UML.  This site also contains extensive lists of books about UML and software tools that utilise UML, as well as giving a chart that describes the functionality of each tool.

 

  1. http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/SE/uml.html

 

This is a great site if you are looking for a particular bibliography or reference on UML. 

 

  1. http://www.visualobjectmodelers.com/

 

I found that this was a good site because it was one of the only ones that lets you download a trial copy of their UML modeler.  A person could download a copy, use it for a while, decide which features he/she actually needs and from that make an intelligent decision about which UML modeler to purchase.  This version is also a lot cheaper that Rational Rose but Rational Rose does have a lot of features that Visual UML doesn’t have

 

  1. http://www.rational.com/uml/index.jtmpl

 

This is Rational Software’s site for UML resources.  I have found of all the sites that I found on the internet, Rational’s was by far the best for resources, press releases, and specification documents.  They are, after all the ones that founded the development of UML in the first place so it is not surprising that they have the best web site for information.