This book describes a use case–driven UML-based method for the modeling and design of software architectures, including object-oriented software architectures, client/server software architectures, service-oriented architectures, componentbased software architectures, concurrent and real-time software architectures, and software product line architectures. The book provides a unified approach to designing software architectures and describes the special considerations for each category of software architecture. In addition, there are four case studies, a client/server banking system, a service-oriented architecture for an online shopping system, a distributed component-based emergency monitoring system, and a real-time automated guided vehicle system.

This book describes a UML-based software modeling and design method called COMET (Collaborative Object Modeling and Architectural Design Method). COMET is a highly iterative object-oriented software development method that addresses the requirements, analysis, and design modeling phases of the objectoriented development life cycle.

The book is intended to appeal to readers who wish to design software architectures using a systematicUML-based method that starts from requirementsmodeling with use cases, through static and dynamic modeling, to software design based on architectural design patterns.