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| E-Business and the Changing Role of Application Development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Motivation | |
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| Software Development Challenges | |
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| The Key to the Future: Managing Complexity and Rapidly Adapting to Change | |
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| Managing Complexity | |
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| Adapting to Change | |
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| Business Drivers and IT Strategy | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Evolution of Application Development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evolution of Application Development Support | |
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| PastClient/Server Applications | |
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| PresentN-Tier Distributed Systems | |
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| FutureNomadic, Service-Oriented Solutions | |
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| Key Issues for Future Application Development | |
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| Representing Large-Scale Distributed Software Architectures | |
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| Modeling Reusable Pieces of a System | |
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| Improved Method Support for New Kinds of Applications | |
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| Pragmatic Concerns for Established Application Development Tool Vendors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Enterprise-Scale Solutions in the Internet Age | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The e-Business Revolution | |
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| Today's Critical IT Issues | |
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| The Importance of the Middle Tiers | |
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| From Client-Server to N-Tier Architectures | |
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| The Role of the Middle Tiers in Web-Based Systems | |
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| The Application Server | |
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| Enterprise Application Integration | |
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| Application Integration the New View of Development | |
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| EAI Through Connectors | |
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| A Broader View of EAI | |
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| Components and Component Models | |
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| Designing with Components | |
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| Implementing for Components | |
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| Summary | |
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| Components and Component-Based Approaches | |
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| Component-Based Development Fundamentals | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Goals of Component Approaches | |
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| Why Component-Based Development? What Is a Component? Components and Objects | |
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| Components and Distributed Systems | |
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| Elements of a Component | |
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| How are Applications Assembled Using CBD? Sources of Components | |
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| Interface-Focused Design | |
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| Applications and Component Architecture | |
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| What Is the Current Practice in CBD? Special Interest Groups | |
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| Vendor-Led User Groups | |
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| Specialist Component Service Providers | |
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| Experience Reports and Advice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Component-Based Development Insights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Provision of Reusable Services | |
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| Independent Delivery of Services | |
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| A Deeper Understanding of Components | |
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| Packaging Perspective | |
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| Service Perspective | |
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| Integrity Perspective | |
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| An Illustrative Example: Microsoft Excel | |
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| The Importance of Component Specification | |
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| The Role of Interfaces | |
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| The Importance of Models | |
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| Collaborations and Roles | |
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| The Elements of a Component-Based Approach | |
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| Application Assembly from Components | |
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| Provision of Independent Services | |
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| A Common Component Infrastructure | |
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| Use of Common Services | |
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| Summary | |
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| Applying Component Techniques | |
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| CBD Technology and Standards | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Unified Modeling Language (UML) | |
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| What Is the UML? Background to the UML | |
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| What Is Defined by UML? Supporting Component Modeling with UML | |
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| Advanced UML Concepts | |
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| The Microsoft Repository | |
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| Background | |
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| The Conceptual Design of the Repository | |
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| Information Models for CBD | |
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| Component Infrastructure Technology | |
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| Component Infrastructure Services | |
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| Component Infrastructure Implementations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Approaches to Component-Oriented Modeling | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The CBD Life Cycle | |
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| The Rational Unified Process | |
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| Sterling Software's Enterprise-CBD Approach | |
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| Interface-Focused Design Approaches | |
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| A UML-Inspired Component Modeling Approach | |
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| A Catalysis-Inspired Component Modeling Approach | |
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| Summary | |
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| An Illustration of a Component-Based Method | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Understand the Context | |
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| Requirements Definition | |
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| Use Case Modeling | |
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| Business Type Modeling | |
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| Define the Architecture | |
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| Component Architecture Modeling | |
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| Context Modeling | |
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| Interface Modeling | |
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| Interface Definition | |
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| Provision the Solution | |
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| Component Implementation | |
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| Component Wrapping | |
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| Component Assembly | |
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| System Deployment | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Look to the Future | |
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| The Business Imperative: Moving Quickly into the Digital Age | |
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| Introduction | |
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| e-Anything and e-Everythi | |