Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

Citation

Mann, C.J.H. (2007), "Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 5/6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2007.06736eae.002

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

Pavel HrubySpringerHeidelberg, Germany2006i-xvi 368 pp., 285 illustrationsISBN 3-540-30154-2US $59.95 (Hardcover)

Keywords Business, Cybernetics, Management, Systems

Management scientists have a special interest in business applications and practical implementations of research and developments in the field. This book illustrates how it is possible to apply the pattern ideas in business applications. To do this Pavel Hruby presents more than 20 structural and behavioral business patterns. These patterns use the resources, events and agents (REA) pattern as a common base. The author believes that:

If you are a developer working on business frameworks, you can use the patterns presented to derive the right abstractions (e.g. business objects) and to design and ensure that the meta-rules (e.g. process patterns) are followed by the actual applications.

It also points out that if you are an application developer you can use these patterns to design your business application to ensure that it does not violate the domain rules, and to adapt the application to changing requirements. This can be done without the need to change the overall architecture. Readers will find that the detail of the 20 or so structural and behavioral patterns that use the REA pattern as a common backbone in their application to business are particularly useful and form an excellent reference source