Both IT organizations and business leaders recognize the urgent importance of aligning technology solutions with enterprise strategy. But they ve struggled to do so... until now. Capability Cases represents a breakthrough a powerful systematic way to translate business vision into effective plans and system designs. This chapter introduces capability...

Huge projects can easily be overwhelming. This chapter will teach you how to break these mega-projects into specific achievable goals which can be focused on one at a time without worrying about the big picture....

Design patterns aren t just for application code. In this extract from Data Access Patterns Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications Clifton Nock explains the Data Accessor pattern which decouples application logic from the physical data access implementation by defining an abstraction that exposes only logical operations to the application...

As it turns out software development isn t like manufacturing at all. It s a different kind of work to solve a different kind of problem despite what their learning and training tells most managers. The manufacturing mindset simply doesn t apply to software development. Roy Miller explains why....

The Creator of the Cafe con Leche web site and author of such books as n The XML Bible XML in a Nutshell and Processing XML with Java shares his favorite books. And not all of them are about XML....

This chapter from The Essence of Object-Oriented Programming with Java and UML explains how you can use object orientation UML and Java to build well-designed systems that are robust and easy to maintain.n...

This article by Kurt Wallnau provided courtesy of the Software Engineering Institute covers how to put model problems into action by using the 3-Rs of design risk reduction in component-based systems Realize model solutions Reflect on their utility and risk and Repair the risks....

With the ability of UML to design so many different visual models you can encompass an entire application and database design using a single language that can be understood by business analysts software developers and database teams....

As an IT professional you need a high-quality business case to successfully deploy component technology at the enterprise level. In this chapter the author reviews three different models for building your business case....

This chapter from Building Systems from Commercial Components illustrates the authors& 039; approach to the design of component-based systems through a model problem....

Idiom is an object model based interactive system design method that supports the design of system scope content functionality and interactivity. This chapter from Object Modeling and User Inferface Design describes the current version of Idiom....

Learn how concurrency and objects fit together how the resulting design forces impact construction of classes and components and how some common design patterns can be used to structure solutions....

If you want to apply COM successfully you need to know more about how contexts work. This chapter from Transactional COM looks at the basic mechanics of contexts....

This paper discusses UML a third generation object-oriented modeling language. Topics include an object-oriented approach to modeling systems modeling with UML diagrams class diagram classes attributes operations relationships use-case diagram interaction diagrams scenarios sequence diagram collaboration diagram message synchronization...

This paper focuses on how UML classes translate into program code how the class diagram enables us to map the individual O-O classes and relationships onto a Relational Database and how messages shown on a Sequence diagram define BOTH the sequence of execution of the methods AND to which classes these methods should be encapsulated with....