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(Each chapter concludes with "Summary".)
I. VISUAL MODELING TECHNIQUE.
1. Introduction: Why VMT?
Contents of an Object Methodology.
Visual Programming.
Application Development Phases.
The Application Development Process.
Process Models and Methodologies.
Object Methodologies.
VMT: A Complementary Approach.
Summary.
2. The VMT Analysis Phase.
Modelling.
Object-Oriented Analysis.
Requirements Modelling.
Analysis Prototyping.
Building an Object Model.
The Model Dictionary.
Analyzing Object Responsibilities.
Dynamic Modeling.
Validating and Refining Analysis Models.
Summary.
3. Case Study: The Foreign Currency Exchange System - Analysis Phase.
Problem Statement.
Project Iterations.
Analysis.
Object Modelling.
Model Dictionary.
Initial CRC Cards.
Dynamic Model.
Summary.
4. Object Persistence Using Relational Databases.
Persistent Objects.
Basic Concepts of Relational Databases.
Mapping Objects to Relational Schemas.
Object Identifiers.
Mapping Object Classes to Tables.
Mapping Associations and Aggregations to Tables.
Mapping Generalizations to Tables.
Performance Considerations.
Summary.
5. The VMT Design Phase.
System Design.
Object Design.
Object Persistence Design.
Database Access Design.
Summary.
6. Implementation with VMT: From Model to Code.
The VisualAge Development Environment.
The Mapping Process.
Programming by Contract: Building Software from Parts.
Developing a GUI with Visual Components.
Summary.
7. Case Study: Designing the Foreign Currency Exchange System.
System Design.
Object Design.
Design Decisions and Implementation Strategies.
Designing for Object Persistence Using a Relational Database.
Refining the Object Model Using Design Patterns.
Summary.
II. VMT AND DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS.
8. Object Technology and Distributed Systems.
Distributed Systems.
Approaches to Building Distributed Systems.
Challenges in Building Distributed Systems.
Data and Function Placement.
Distributed Object Computing.
Distributed Object Applications.
Summary.
9. Designing Distributed Object Applications with VMT.
System Design.
Object Design.
Object Persistence Design.
Summary.
10. Case Study: Extending the FCE System with Distributed Objects.
Distributed FCE Application Scenarios.
Design Considerations.
Application Development Iterations.
Case Study: The FCE Application in a Distributed Object Environment.
Design.
Designing the Customer Management Application Using DSOM.
Designing the Currency Management Application Using the VisualAge Distributed Feature.
Summary.
III. MANAGEMENT ASPECTS.
11. Managing Object-Oriented Development Projects.
VMT and Development Process Models.
Prototyping.
Rapid Application Development.
Supportive Development Environments.
Development Approaches for Object-Oriented Projects.
Staffing and Training.
Estimating Project Cost and Duration.
The Transition to Object-Oriented Technology.
Summary.
12. Testing and Documentation.
Testing in Object-Oriented Development.
Documentation.
Summary.
IV. BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING AND OBJECT TECHNOLOGY.
13. Business Process Reengineering.
The LOVEM Approach for Process Mapping.
Line of Visibility Charts.
The Family of Line of Visibility Charts.
Processes.
Process Path Management.
Levels of Complexity and Levels of Detail.
Comparison of Logical and Physical Representations.
Views of a Business.
Summary.
14. Integrating Business Process Reengineering with Object-Oriented Modelling.
Object-Oriented Modeling in the BPR Cycle.
An Integrated Approach Using LOVEM and VMT.
Use Cases and JLOVCs.
Business Engineering Enabled by Process Visualization.
Forward Reengineering Methods with PLOVCs, JLOVCs, and Use Cases.
Identifying Business Objects.
Enterprise Modeling.
Industry Architectures.
Components of Industry and Implementation Models.
Charting Industry Architectures Using Objects.
Further Trends in Integration.
Summary.
15. Augmenting VMT Requirements Modeling with Business Rules.
Requirements.
Business Rules in Reengineering.
Visual Modeling of Requirements with Business Rules.
Business Rules and Reuse.
Summary.
16. Conclusion: Trends And Perspectives.
Appendix A. FCE Specifications.
Appendix B. FCE Implementation Details.
Appendix C. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
Appendix D. The System Object Model (SOM).
Appendix E. IBM Distributed Smalltalk Technology.
Bibliography.
Index. 0805325743T04062001
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James White
reviewed Visual Modeling Technique: Object Technology Using Visual Programming on August 28, 2008
Visual Modeling Technique: Object Technology Using Visual Programming
Considering this book was written before many of the most the popular OO languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python; even existed, it feels pretty contemporary. It talks heavily about arguably suboptimal concepts like multiple inheritance and getting the upfront design right but I think we can take most of the ideas and apply them to Agile environments, that is, we still do planning on Agile even though incremental, iterative development is at the heart of the process. We don't necessarily have to write a full blown upfront design, but we can use the elaborated techniques described in this book to come up with good, supple and flexible feature/system designs easy to refactor down the road.
Most of these concepts have stood the test of time.
You're presented with notions like who controls what, spreading system intelligence as evenly as possible rather than encapsulating most behaviour in a single class, wrap classes inside subsystems (modules) to reduce coupling and increase cohesion.
The authors thoroughly break down the building blocks of OOP in a way you wish you had learned before you've ever saw an OO language:
- Inheritance is just about factoring out common functionality into a single place.
- Objects communicate with each other by sending messages.
- Messages have a name and may include arguments.
- Objects handle messages by executing methods.
- The set of messages an object can respond to is known as behaviour.
- When two or more kinds of objects can respond to the same message by executing different methods which have the same message name, you get polymorphism.
It was great to read a book from the time when a lot of the stuff we now take for granted had to be factored into the design like: classes for handling Arrays, graphic operations, fixed/floating point numbers, etc. Things we today get from programming frameworks with a rich library of built-in functionality, it gives you an idea of where we're coming from being a refreshing reminder of what things the underlying platform is doing for you.
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