Form-Oriented Analysis: A New Methodology to Model Form-Based Applications

✍ Scribed by Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Form-based applications range from simple web shops to complex enterprise resource planning systems. Draheim and Weber adapt well-established basic modeling techniques in a novel way to achieve a modeling framework optimized for this broad application domain. They introduce new modeling artifacts, such as page diagrams and form storyboards, and separate dialogue patterns to allow for reuse. In their implementation they have developed new constructs such as typed server pages, and tools for forward and reverse engineering of presentation layers. The methodology is explained using an online bookshop as a running example in which the user can experience the modeling concepts in action. The combination of theoretical achievements and hands-on practical advice and tools makes this book a reference work for both researchers in the areas of software architectures and submit-response style user interfaces, and professionals designing and developing such applications. More information and additional material is also available online.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 The Form-Based System Paradigm......Page 24
3 Exploring the Online Bookshop......Page 38
4 Form Storyboarding......Page 50
5 Formcharts and Dialogue Specification......Page 64
6 Model Decomposition and Refinement......Page 112
7 Data Modeling......Page 124
8 Message-Based Modeling of Data Interchange......Page 162
9 A Descriptive Approach......Page 180
10 Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering......Page 202
11 Typed Server Pages......Page 214
12 The Integrated Source Code Paradigm......Page 244
13 State History Diagrams......Page 264
14 Semantics of the Data Model......Page 286
15 Semantics of Web Signatures......Page 298
16 A Comparison of Modeling Methods......Page 340
17 Summary......Page 358
References......Page 366
Index......Page 382