Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-30154-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1590 g

Business applications are designed using profound knowledge about the business domain, such as domain objects, fundamental domain-related principles, and domain patterns. Nonetheless, the pattern community's ideas for software engineering have not impacted at the application level, they are still mostly used for technical problems.

This book takes exactly this step: it shows you how to apply the pattern ideas in business applications and presents more than 20 structural and behavioral business patterns that use the REA (resources, events, agents) pattern as a common backbone. If you are a developer working on business frameworks, you can use the patterns presented to derive the right abstractions (e.g., business objects) and to design and ensure that the meta-rules (e.g., process patterns) are followed by the developers of the actual applications. And if you are an application developer, you can use these patterns to design your business application, to ensure that it does not violate the domain rules, and to adapt the application to changing requirements without the need to change the overall architecture. As with patterns in general, this approach allows for both more flexible and more solid software architectures and hence better software quality.

Bob Haugen, Business Technology Consultant and Contributor to REA standardization in ISO, UN/CEFACT and ebXML, UK

Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hruby, Pavel

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering Objektorientierte Softwareentwicklung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmierung: Methoden und Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Structural Patterns. Structural Patterns at Operational Level.- What is REA?- Benefits of Domain Ontology.- REA Business Patterns.- REA Value Chain.- Structural Patterns at Policy Level.- Groups.- Types.- Difference between Types and Groups.- Commitment.- Contract.- Schedule.- Policy.- Linkage.- Responsibility.- Custody. Part Two: Behavioral Patterns. Identification.- Classification.- Location.- Posting.- Account.- Materialized Claim.- Reconciliation.- Due Date.- Description.- Notification.- Note.- Value.- How to Discover New Behavioral Patterns. Part Three: Model-Driven Development of Software Applications. Executable Model.- Level of Specificity of the Model.- Models in Various Domains. Part Four: Modeling Handbook. Elementary Exchanges.- Elementary Conversions.- Combined Models.- Contracts. Appendix: Principles of Business Modeling.

Über Autor(innen)

Pavel Hruby works at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen in Denmark as part of an architecture team developing the framework for next-generation business software applications that exploit business patterns as one of their primary modeling abstractions. Pavel’s experience includes the application of patterns in object-oriented frameworks, models, and model transformations. He is active in the patterns community, is a member of the Hillside Group and Hillside Europe, and was a chairman of VikingPLoP 2002, the First Nordic Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs.