Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns (eBook)

Pavel Hruby works at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen in Denmark as part of an architecture team developing the framework for next-generation business software applications that exploit business patterns as one of their primary modeling abstractions. Pavel’s experience includes the application of patterns in object-oriented frameworks, models, and model transformations. He is active in the patterns community, is a member of the Hillside Group and Hillside Europe, and was a chairman of VikingPLoP 2002, the First Nordic Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs.

Part One: Structural Patterns. Structural Patterns at Operational Level.- What is REA?- Benefits of Domain Ontology.- REA Business Patterns.- REA Value Chain.- Structural Patterns at Policy Level.- Groups.- Types.- Difference between Types and Groups.- Commitment.- Contract.- Schedule.- Policy.- Linkage.- Responsibility.- Custody. Part Two: Behavioral Patterns. Identification.- Classification.- Location.- Posting.- Account.- Materialized Claim.- Reconciliation.- Due Date.- Description.- Notification.- Note.- Value.- How to Discover New Behavioral Patterns. Part Three: Model-Driven Development of Software Applications. Executable Model.- Level of Specificity of the Model.- Models in Various Domains. Part Four: Modeling Handbook. Elementary Exchanges.- Elementary Conversions.- Combined Models.- Contracts. Appendix: Principles of Business Modeling.