Developing Business Objects
Developing Business Objects
Out of Print
Software development projects have always held the promise of greater efficiency or increased automation, but today's business projects are no longer satisfied with automating existing ways of competing in the market place - they want to transform the markets themselves. Developing Business Objects brings together the experiences of the practitioners who pioneered the use of object-oriented methods and languages in commercial applications, and presents their experiences of applying and succeeding (and in some cases failing) with object technology. Since each chapter of the book is firmly grounded in the real world of people, budgets, deadlines, successes and failures, it cuts through the hype to the real issues that affect the quality and productivity of every software engineering endeavor. The book includes sections on the need for 'concurrent engineering' (all phases of a traditional life cycle happening in parallel and the advantages and difficulties this brings), the importance of understanding the business purpose rather than automating what currently exists, and the importance of effective management of change.
- Provides insight into how object orientation can change the way one analyses and implements systems
- Shows how business object modeling can and should be an integral part of an organization's strategy for dealing with change
- Gives many first hand accounts of successes and failures of object development in practice
Reviews & endorsements
'The message that objects are vitally important for business comes through loud and clear, and this welcome addition to the literature helps us understand the many promises and pitfalls of business objects.' Steve Cook, IBM
'The use of object methods (in most cases) has proved to be overwhelmingly positive, and this book provides encouragement for those embarking on first projects using object technology. While optimism is an essential ingredient at the start of any project, they may in the end find the discussion of common problems and pitfalls even more important.' From the preface
Product details
July 1998Paperback
9780521648257
333 pages
235 × 178 × 19 mm
0.54kg
109 b/w illus. 5 tables
Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Objects in business A. Carmichael
- Part II. From Business Strategy to Business Objects:
- 2. Building an object business model for a telecommunications company K. M. Gardner et al.
- 3. Requirements engineering and business process modeling with SOMA I. Graham
- 4. A process framework for business objects J. Halé
- 5. Business object modeling with aBCd J. Halé
- Part III. The Object Development Process in Practice:
- 6. Developing a financial market analysis product: a MOSES case study B. Unhelkar
- 7. Fitness for purpose: an examination of popular object-analysis strategies S. Gossain
- 8. GUIDE - an object-oriented GUI design method D. Redmond-Pyle
- 9. Using CORBA to simplify application development S. Baker and S. O'Sullivan
- 10. Business objects in object databases A. E. Wade
- 11. Java for business objects S. Baker and R. Geraghty
- 12. Developing an Object-Oriented Architecture T. O'Rourke
- 13. Object-Oriented Project Management J. Nicholls and A. Carmichael.
