You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
The notation for object model encapsulation is shown below. Methods are shown at the
bottom of the class notation.
Code and
data were not always packaged together. At one time, for example, it was
necessary to define an age calculation in each application or have a library
that contained the age calculation routine. Having an age calculation or any
routine, replicated in many applications may make it difficult to ensure that a
change in the routine was made everywhere that it is used. Using a library
improves this situation if use of the library is enforced. Nevertheless, with a
library, you can never be sure which routine is supposed to be used with which
data. It is entirely possible to execute the right code on the wrong data or the
wrong code on the right data.
Object systems recognize which methods belong to which data. You cannot
execute the right method on the wrong data as you could with library systems.
The correct execution of methods is called dispatching, and it is handled
by the object system. See dispatching (new window).
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