COAD'S NEW OBJECT MODELS BOOK INCLUDES AUTOMATED TOOL
Features GUI That Surpasses Many Others

Playground is an object modeling tool aimed at business experts and the
analysts who work with them.

SAN FRANCISCO CA at the SD-West Conference (Thursday, Feb. 16, 1995).
Object International officially released Playground 1.0, an object
modeling tool for the niche "business expert and software analyst"
market.

The GUI features a new "fast-connect" option. With it, users can
drag-and-drop one of four connecting lines from one symbol to another,
without a side-trip to a pull-down menu or a tool palette. Users report
that this feature makes the tool "sketchpad-like," in that they can sketch
out a model as fast as they would on paper or on a whiteboard.

Thomas Murphy, product manager for Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk, said,
"Playground is a great tool with an easy-to-use interface. It provides a
good way to learn OOA/D and for building initial designs."

Playground features:

- drag-and-drop classes, attributes, services, connections
- multiple views, always in-sync
- view management, with view categories,
  selective hiding/showing, and view update options
- full control over connections, including routing points,
  right-angled or diagonal connections, and more
- extensive customization with preferences.

Playground is free for classroom use and for personal study.

The "classroom and personal study only" version is included on diskette in
the just-released book, "Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and
Applications" (Coad, with North and Mayfield, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN
0-13-108614-6). It's also available by ftp from
ftp://ftp.oi.com/pub/oi/playground.

Playground is shareware. The registered version pricing is set at two
levels. For individual use, it's $40. For individual use within a company
or organization, it's $95. Playground comes with 30-day money-back
guarantee.

Object Intl., Inc. is a leader in object-oriented education, tools, and
consulting---helping people deliver frequent, tangible, working results.
Key personnel: Peter Coad and Mark Mayfield. Founded in 1986, Object
Intl., Inc. is located at 8140 N. MoPac 4-200, Austin, Texas 78759 USA
(1-512-795-0202 fax 1-512-795-0332.

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