In this book, leading object-oriented consultant Paul Reed integrates Java and UML to create a powerfully effective process for building robust software. Reed covers the entire lifecycle, demonstrating how to establish sound project plans, estimate projects with greater accuracy and confidence, create sound Java designs with UML, use visual modeling tools, and construct better applications. Paul Reed begins by reviewing the dilemmas facing software developers, and demonstrating how the new UML-based Synergy methodology addresses these dilemmas. He introduces UML and the Synergy methodology through a comprehensive, start-to-finish case study in enterprise development. Learn how to create use cases; build UML class diagrams that enable the categorization of business rules; build early prototypes; and much more. The book shows how to choose appropriate distributed technologies (including RMI, CORBA, JSP, servlets, and EJB); implement data persistence; finalize a design; generate code from UML class diagrams; and create a distributed implementation that can be deployed on application servers such as IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic. Along the way, Reed introduces two leading visual modeling tools: Rational Rose and Advanced Software's GDPro. For Java developers, analysts, designers, and software engineers at all levels of experience.