27. Java and UML Resources

27.1. Reference Books

David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell Edition 5, 5th ed., O’Reilly and Associates 2005. Part of the O’Reilly Java series, this book provides a concise desktop reference to Java and the API.

James Gosling, Bill Joy, and Guy Steele, The Java Language Specification, 3d ed., Addison-Wesley, 2005. This book, which is part of Addison-Wesley’s Java Se- ries, provides a detailed description of the Java language. An online version is available at

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Martin Fowler, UML Distilled, 3d ed., Addison-Wesley, 2003. This book, which is part of Addison-Wesley’s Object Technology Series, provides a concise intro- duction to UML.