Articles on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Architecture and Data Modeling
The design model of an application that was developed with support of frameworks involves both the framework and the application design. This can create complex software architectures represented by design models that are difficult to understand, because many framework characteristics are not easy to transcribe in plain Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used. The same […]
UML-AOF: Modeling Aspect-Oriented Frameworks Read More »
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a set of techniques based on the idea that software is better programmed if you capture different “things happenning in a program” in different ways and encapsulate them into different modules. Capturing concerns that crosscut the boundaries of multiple components in software architecture descriptions is problematic and Standard description languages, such
From Aspect-Oriented Programming to UML Read More »
This article by Tanya Wolff provides an overview of using models for designing business processes and services, the roles and tools involved and workflows that software architects can use for this activity. It highlights advantages of assembling the participants and services in a business process or service and provides examples to demonstrate the effects that
Designing Business Processes and Services with Models Read More »
Business application development often starts with business process modeling to discover and document the key business requirements necessary to meet business objectives. Tasks in these processes can be implemented using a variety of techniques. However, there are many cases where simple functional decomposition leading to workflow based applications are not enough. In these cases other
Business Services Modeling Read More »
Over the recent years there is a tendency for using domain-specific languages which enable expressing design solutions in the idiom and level of abstraction appropriate for a specific problem domain. While this approach enables an efficient and accurate design, it suffers from problems of standardization, portability and transformation between the models. This paper addresses a
Using UML for Domain-Specific Component Models Read More »