Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns

by Pavel Hruby

This book shows how to apply pattern ideas in business applications. It presents more than 20 structural and behavioral business patterns that use the REA (resources, events, agents) pattern as a common backbone. The developer working on business frameworks can use the patterns to derive the right abstractions and to design and ensure that the meta-rules are followed by the developers of the actual applications. The application developer can use these patterns to design a business application, to ensure that it does not violate the domain rules, and to adapt the application to changing requirements without the need to change the overall architecture.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Michael Fruergaard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this book - for several reasons:
a. It is answering some of the tough REA problems. As far as I know this is the first book providing an answer to questions like: What do you get in exchange when you buy insurance? How can product return fit into REA? How about guarantees and repairs?
b. It is very precise and to the point - no wavering anywhere. Discussions on options and compromizes kept crisp and concise. (If just American text books would understand the importance of this...)
c. REA Models are provided to explain the patterns in the book using UML, i.e. easy to understand.
d. The book has >200 figures - and a pictures says mroe than a thousand words :-)