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

✍ Scribed by Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• 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

Introduction....Pages 3-8
The Form-Based System Paradigm....Pages 9-22
Exploring the Online Bookshop....Pages 23-33
Form Storyboarding....Pages 35-47
Formcharts and Dialogue Specification....Pages 49-96
Model Decomposition and Refinement....Pages 97-108
Data Modeling....Pages 109-145
Message-Based Modeling of Data Interchange....Pages 147-164
A Descriptive Approach....Pages 165-184
Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering....Pages 187-198
Typed Server Pages....Pages 199-226
The Integrated Source Code Paradigm....Pages 229-247
State History Diagrams....Pages 249-270
Semantics of the Data Model....Pages 271-282
Semantics of Web Signatures....Pages 283-321
A Comparison of Modeling Methods....Pages 325-341
Summary....Pages 343-349

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Models and Principles; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Business Information Systems