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I have about four years of experience as a Java developer. I'm planning to get myself involved in the world of UML. Can anyone suggest some good books and reference material for UML?

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UML Distilled, by Martin Fowler.

I have it here, and it's a very good introduction. Actually, it was a "required reading material" for my university, so can be thought of as a textbook as well.

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Book Applying UML And Patterns

http://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Book_Applying_UML_and_Patterns

I used it during my study

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I would recommend The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, written by the creators of UML, the "Three Amigos" of software engineering (Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh).

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Check out the UML Resource Page of the OMG. Among other resources, this page has links to the latest UML specifications.

There are plenty of good books available as well:

• The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual - Rumbaugh, Jacobson, and Booch
• The Unified Modeling Language User Guide - Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobson
• UML Distilled - Martin Fowler

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I am currently reading:

Object-oriented Systems analysis and design using UML

By Simon Bennett

It is given as indicative reading on my degree course, and has genuinely helped me a lot.

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Don't read any book because all these guys just talk about UML but not about real life.

I would recommend to manually code and then reverse your code into a class diagram. You can also reverse a sequence diagram from your methods. Don't do more and certainy not read books because it is a waste of time :-)