About the book: year / UML self-instruction manualFirst edition. The book discusses the basics of UML - a unified modeling language for describing, visualizing and documenting object-oriented systems and business processes during software application development. The basic UML concepts necessary to build an object-oriented system model using graphical notation are described in detail. The presentation is accompanied by examples of the development of individual diagrams that are necessary to represent the information model of the system. The purpose of the book is to help programmers master a new methodology for developing enterprise software applications for the subsequent application of acquired knowledge using appropriate CASE tools.