For nearly ten years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the industry standard for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the (71) of a software-intensive system. As the (72) standard modeling language, the UML facilitates communication and reduces confusion among project (73) . The recent standardization of UML 2.0 has further extended the language's scope and viability. Its inherent expressiveness allows users to (74) everything from enterprise information systems and distributed Web-based applications to real-time embedded systems.
B.
The UML is not limited to modeling software. In fact, it is expressive enough to model (75) systems, such as workflow in the legal system, the structure and behavior of a patient healthcare system, software engineering in aircraft combat systems, and the design of hardware.
C.
To understand the UML, you need to form a conceptual model of the language, and this requires learning three major elements: the UML's basic building blocks, the rules that dictate how those building blocks may be put together, and some common mechanisms that apply throughout the UML.
You want to use the Web to let Eternal users or your customers look at corporate information. But you want to keep installation at the user end (66) and you don’t want just anyone to get (67) your databases.
B.
That may be where an application server enters the picture. For more user machine independent, these t software packages, typically written in the (68) programming language.
C.
for use on Windows NT-based systems, act as go-betweens linking browser-equipped end users to the databases that (69) the information they need to (70) 。
Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, (1) into a hobby and lately has (2) into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates (3) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in April 1994 as a way to keep (4) of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they (5) that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and (6) Gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
B.
During 1994, they (7) yahoo into a customized database designed to (8) the needs of the thousands of users (9) began to use the service through the closely (10) Internet community. They developed customized software to help them efficiently locate, identify and edit material stored on the Internet.
When the subject is money, women often cling to two persistent stereotypes, one a pleasant dream, the other a nightmare.
B.
In the (1) , they hate fantasies that a white (2) will provide happily-ever-after financial security. (3) the nightmare, by contrast, they fear that an impoverished retirement could (4) them into bag ladies on the street.
C.
Now (5) advisers and managers are (6) forces to change those images. In a proliferation of books, seminars, conferences, Web (7) , and investment clubs, they are (8) out to women, helping them to become financially savvy and economically (9) . Prince Charming, they warn, may not come.
D.
"If and when he does show (10) , he may have less than you do," quips Brooke Stephens, a financial adviser.