UML for software products, maybe lines too?

It's still unclear to me how the software product lines in this book are distinguished simply from the products themselves. There is more emphasis on reuse and this appears to be the key distinguishing characteristic. But even with the book just focusing on a singly product this is a valuable work showing the use of techniques of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML. The book is a solid piece of work (both physically and in content), though there is a bias towards illustrations as opposed to explanatory text. Software architects should evaluate the book in person. Front line software engineers probably won't find much they can apply to their work.

Other Reviews

• Excellent description of software product lines
• Excellent UML for PLE Coverage
• An interesting contribution but does not solve the Problems
• Good Text for Reusable Software Architecture
• UML for software products, maybe lines too?