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Business Objects: Delivering Cooperative Objects for Client-Server

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Business Objects: Delivering Cooperative Objects for Client-Server

Business Objects: Delivering Cooperative Objects for Client-Server
McGraw-Hill / Sims Associates | 2004-01 | ISBN: 0077079574 | PDF | 2 Mb | 348 pages

Client/server systems promise major benefits for businesses, organizations and people. Promises include exceptional ease-of-use, application integration and taking IT off the critical path of business change. The question is, how do we realize these benefits? This book describes an approach to developing application systems that can play a significant part in turning these promises into achievable goals. It is a book about realizing the dramatic advantages to be gained from the application of object orientation to client/server systems. It describes a new approach to structuring application software. By applying object orientation to the end product of the application development process (rather than to components used within the process) this approach provides both ease of programming for distributed systems and a foundation for application integration and rapid development.
Based on experience with industrial-strength systems, this book describes how delivering business-sized objects instead of applications best meets the application design and coding problems otherwise found in distributed and client/server systems. Such business-sized objects are independently developed using either procedural or object-oriented programming languages. They cooperate with each other in providing business function, and hence they are called ‘cooperative business objects’, or CBOs. The term ‘CBO’ is used to distinguish between a business-sized object as an end product, and an object used by a developer as a component of an object-oriented application. Such an application is not itself an object. A CBO is.
Just as transaction programs rather than batch suites were the best ‘shape’ for the on-line systems of the 70s, so CBOs are the best shape for the systems of the 90s. Providing this new shape of deliverable is, perhaps, the real business of objects.