With the development and wide adoption of a standard notation - the Unified Modeling Language (UML) - real-time systems developers can now avail themselves of the benefits and advantages of object technology. UML is a third-generation modeling language that rigorously defines the semantics of the object metamodel and provides a notation for capturing and communicating object structure and behavior.

It is particularly well suited to modeling real-time and embedded systems Real-Time UML is the concise, "distilled" introduction that developers of real-time systems need to begin the transition to object-oriented analysis and design and modelling with UML. It covers the important features of the UML and shows how to effectively use the UML to model real-time systems.

The book includes special in-depth discussions of finite state machines, object identification strategies, and real-time design patterns to help beginning and experienced developers alike.