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> they bought Jacobson’s consulting company and phased out OOSE The method and tool by Jacobson and colleagues was actually called Objectory, not OOSE (the lat
by Rochus 4y ago
> they bought Jacobson’s consulting company and phased out OOSE
The method and tool by Jacobson and colleagues was actually called Objectory, not OOSE (the latter is the name of a german consulting company which pubished their own method called OOSE more than two decades ago).
Objectory as a method and tool was excellent, especially for analysis and design. Rose (the Rational tool) might have looked prettier than the Objectory tool but couldn't do much more than diagram drawing. Unfortunately the Objectory tool vanished after they bought it. UML and RUP have suffered the same fate as all methods. After a certain time in evolution, people have forgotten the original intentions and concepts, watered them down beyond recognition or diverted them from their intended purpose, and instead only formalistic but useless rites are practiced, which is commonly referred to as cargo cult. The same fate will happen to Agile (or it has already happened).
- jdougan 4y agoObject-Oriented Software Engineering is the title of Jacobson's 1992 book describing a reduced tool-less version of Objectory that was referred to as OOSE. ISBN 0-201-54435-0 To this day I still use OOSE notation when sketching a design, I alwas thought UML was a step down.
- Rochus 4y agoYou're right, the book does not present Objectory, just the fundamental ideas. But RUP was the continuation of the "Rational Objectory Process", which was Objectory gradually using UML instead of the original diagrams. The fellow referred to Jacobson's consulting company and RUP and UML, not Jacobson's text book. I still have the original Objectory documentation, and even asked Jacobson many years ago whether they could open source the Objectory tool, but unfortunately that didn't happen yet (at least not to my knowledge).