Form-Oriented Analysis

The authors introduce an analysis and design method customized to form-based enterprise applications, the predominant type of business application. The text provides a comprehensive introduction to form-based systems, explaining their common properties and giving at the same time a hands-on introduction to the modeling of such systems. Form-based enterprise applications are modeled by a bipartite state machine and a tiered data model as a class diagram. The modeling method is explained with the TCW-3 online bookshop as a running example, in which the user can experience the modeling concepts in action.

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Inhalt
Modeling Form-Based Systems.- The Form-Based System Paradigm.- Exploring the Online Bookshop.- Form Storyboarding.- Formcharts and Dialogue Specification.- Model Decomposition and Refinement.- Data Modeling.- Message-Based Modeling of Data Interchange.- A Descriptive Approach.- Tool Support.- Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering.- Typed Server Pages.- Semantics.- The Integrated Source Code Paradigm.- State History Diagrams.- Semantics of the Data Model.- Semantics of Web Signatures.- Conclusion.- A Comparison of Modeling Methods.- Summary.