Destinations

This area includes a number of useful Web links that should help you get started finding areas about object-oriented systems analysis and design, CASE tools, and information systems on the World Wide Web.

CASE Tool Information
CASE Companies
Systems Analysis and Design
Information Systems Lists
Magazines
Object-Oriented Resources
General MIS Sites

CASE Tool Information

Rational Rose: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/
Microsoft Visio: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857981033.aspx
ArgoUML: http://argouml.tigris.org

CASE Companies

For IBM, the best site is http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/, which includes Rational Rose as well as other development tools like Websphere.

For Microsoft, the best Web site is http://msdn.microsoft.com/ since it includes development tools other than Visio, which can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/visio/.

Tigris.org http://tigris.org offers ArgoUML, http://argouml.tigris.org

Systems Analysis and Design

PR-Tracker is a tool that helps project managers track software bugs with problem reports.

Information Systems Lists

http://www.sba.pdx.edu/ug/is/isr/index.htm
A list of information systems resources, grouped by subject, of general interest to IS educators.

Magazines

Intelligent Enterprise: http://www.intelligententerprise.com

Software Development: http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/sdmag.jhtml

Object-Oriented Resources

General
http://www.omg.org/ (The Object Management Group; this is the main Web site for OO resources.)

UML
http://www.uml.org/

http://www.db.informatik.uni-bremen.de/umlbib/home.html (for UML workshops)

Java
http://java.sun.com/ (for general information and downloading different versions of Java)
http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp
http://www.javaworld.com/ (another useful Java source)
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/  (Java tutorial)

XML and related Web technologies
http://www.w3.org/ (for all web related issues including XML)

General MIS sites

http://www.isworld.org/ (for general information on MIS related issues)

http://www.agilemanifesto.org/ (on agile software development)


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