Objects in Business Modelling   -The Concepts and Methods for the Object-oriented  Software Development Process- ISBN: 963 9056 19 7 Author: Maria Raffai Ph.D. Publisher: Publisher Novadat  Pages: 458  Language: Hungarian Published in 2001 Cover-Design: Gekko Design Studio, Andras Perjés  Next Volumes:      2nd Volume        3rd Volume

The last decade brought a huge breakthrough in development and application of the object-oriented (OO) concepts and methodologies not only in the programming work, but in the analysis and design phases as well. This new paradigm differs in many forms and ways from the well practiced structural solutions, but even though it opens new possibilities in solving business problems, and in abstraction of the real world. The new paradigm emphasis  the component-based development, the importance of reusability, and afterwards it decreases the concurrent processes of the different projects.  It is an effective way for shortening the whole software development lifecycle and for the adaptation to the continuously changing environments. The target of this book is to let known the paradigm, the components, the techniques of Object-orientation and the process of the OO development life cycle in details. The author points to the essence and the effectivity of the OO analysis and design, and shows the different OO methods which became the most popular solutions in the last ten years. There are several patterns and case studies in the book, which help the Reader to understand and use  the new  concept of modeling.

To know more about this book it can be useful to give an overview focusing to the most important points:

• Paradigm-change in the application development The first part deals with the growing requirements for using the most up-to-date technologies, and points to the first steps towards the object-oriented development processes.
• The features of the object-oriented paradigm The second part discusses the similarities and the differences between the traditional and the object-oriented concepts, and describes the characteristics of the most important terminologies and definitions, such as
• abstraction, modeling, model-views
• the mechanisms of encapsulation
• inheritance
• polymorphism
• reusability
• other features, as persistency, visibility etc.
• The object-model Definitions, characteristics and categories of class and objects, the relation-types, the object-model components and the behavior of objects
• Object-modeling techniques
• functional-modeling: system diagram, function-net, package diagram
• activity-modeling:  use case, activity diagram, scenario
• event-modeling: event-list, event-hierarchy, collaboration diagram, sequence diagram, state-transition diagram, interface-modeling
• modeling process' flow: actors in the processes, information-flow
• architecture-modeling: architecture diagram, component-mechanism, deployment diagram
• The object-oriented life-cycle This part details the whole life cycle in architectural approach and shows the different model-views
• The development process This is the most robust part of the book, which deals with the tasks and techniques of the different phases, such as
• creating the business domain model
• requirement specification
• design phase (conceptual and physical design)
• construction, testing, take over
• maintaining
• The author gives useful advises for developers, such as  Kemerer-Chidamber rules,  Alexander-based  Love proposal. etc.
• OO methods The wellknown OO methods are discussed in three different groups:
• OO methods with traditional concepts (hybrid solutions): OSMOSYS, DOMINO, Shlaer-Mellor, HOOD, Colbert and Lorensen OO Development
• effective OO business solutions: OORASS, OOA/OOD, OOSD, RDD, OOIE, Fusion
• base methodologies for the development of the UML and RUP:  OMT, OOADA, OOSE and Objectory.
• Migration to the OO This part emphasis the need of the paradigm-change,  lists ten useful advises with the forecasting the future of the object-orientation.