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Form-Oriented Analysis

A New Methodology to Model Form-Based Applications

By: Dirk Draheim, Gerald Weber

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Hardcover | 19 October 2004

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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.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Business Applications Computer Programming & Software Development Software Engineering Operating Systems Databases Data Capture & Analysis Computer Science Mathematical Theory of Computation Information Technology General Issue Human-Computer Interaction

Graphical & Digital Media Applications Web Graphics & Design

Modeling Form-Based Systems
Introduction	p. 3
Enterprise Systems	p. 4
Modeling Enterprise Systems	p. 5
High-Level Transactional Programming	p. 6
A Parsimonious Relational Notation	p. 6
A Descriptive Approach to the Software Development Process	p. 7
The Form-Based System Paradigm	p. 9
The Submit/Response Style Interface	p. 10
A Message-Based Model of Data Interchange	p. 20
Exploring the Online Bookshop	p. 23
The Dialogue Model	p. 24
The Persistent Data Model	p. 30
An Exemplary Submit/Response Style System	p. 32
Form Storyboarding	p. 35
Page Diagrams	p. 36
Form Storyboards	p. 41
Formcharts and Dialogue Specification	p. 49
Form-Oriented Information System Models	p. 49
The Dialogue Model	p. 55
The Layered Data Model	p. 59
Dialogue Specification	p. 66
The Bookstore Formchart and Data Model	p. 74
Model Decomposition and Refinement	p. 97
Model Union	p. 97
Formchart Decomposition	p. 98
Formchart Hierarchies	p. 100
A Feature-Driven Approach	p. 102
State Sets and State Specialization	p. 104
Decomposition of Page Diagrams and Form Storyboards	p. 107
Model Refinement	p. 107
Data Modeling	p. 109
The Parsimonious Data Modeling Language	p. 111
The Data Access Language DAL	p. 114
The Transaction Data Access Language TDAL	p. 121
Constraints	p. 125
Style Formats	p. 141
Message-Based Modeling of Data Interchange	p. 147
Connectivity of Enterprise Systems	p. 147
The Message-Based System Viewpoint	p. 150
Data Interchange Model	p. 152
Data Interchange Specification	p. 156
The Relation to Data Flow Diagrams	p. 160
The Interplay of Formcharts and Data Interchange Diagrams	p. 162
Topic Bundles	p. 164
A Descriptive Approach	p. 165
Descriptiveness, Prescriptiveness, and the Software Process	p. 168
Metaphor A Posteriori	p. 170
On Desktop Metaphors	p. 172
On Real-World Modeling	p. 173
Visual Modeling De-emphasized	p. 175
Artifact Orientation	p. 176
The High-Level Programming Viewpoint	p. 177
Advanced Systems Modeling Approaches	p. 180
Tool Support
Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering	p. 187
Forward Engineering	p. 188
Reverse Engineering	p. 193
Source-Code-Opaque Reverse Engineering	p. 196
Typed Server Pages	p. 199
Type-Safe Interplay of Forms and Scripts	p. 200
Functional Decomposition of Server Pages	p. 214
Higher-Order Server Pages	p. 221
A Comparison of Web Technologies	p. 224
Semantics
The Integrated Source Code Paradigm	p. 229
Towards Structured Collaborative Work	p. 229
Structured Artifacts	p. 232
The Syntax Model Approach	p. 233
A Closer Look at Languages	p. 235
The Integrated Source Code Paradigm	p. 237
A Flexible Generic Textual Format for Data	p. 241
Generative Programming	p. 244
State History Diagrams	p. 249
State History Diagrams and Class Diagrams	p. 249
Discussion of Formchart Semantics	p. 258
Semantics of Dialogue Constraints	p. 260
Path Expressions	p. 267
Semantics of the Data Model	p. 271
Semantics of the Temporal Model	p. 271
Alternative Fundamental Models	p. 274
Discussion	p. 279
Semantics of Web Signatures	p. 283
Formal Semantics of Web Signature Recovery	p. 283
Coding Guidelines for Typed Server Pages	p. 287
Formal Definition of the NSP Type System	p. 299
Conclusion
A Comparison of Modeling Methods	p. 325
User Interface Modeling	p. 325
Web Site Modeling	p. 326
Data Modeling	p. 328
Model-Oriented Specification Languages	p. 329
Structured Analysis	p. 331
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design	p. 335
Model-Driven Architecture	p. 338
Summary	p. 343
Contributions to Modeling Form-Based Systems	p. 343
Contributions to Modeling in General	p. 347
References	p. 351
Index	p. 367
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