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Business Engineering with Object Technology
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Author: David A. Taylor
List Price: $29.99
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ISBN: 0471045217
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (January, 1995)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 29,295
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Easy to read, but not up-to-date, and a bit naive
The author presents an enthusiastic view of applying some ideas from object-oriented programming to business modeling. In doing so, he makes a number of unsubstantiated, if not false, claims such as "... object technology reflects fundamental cognitive processes" or "... directly supports the way managers think about their business". Compare this to the sobering statement of Jacobsen, one of the founders of the standard model of object orientation (the "UML"), who said that "it is bizarre to apply the way of thinking that governs computer systems to business processes". Clearly, the software engineering concepts brought up by object technology do neither reflect the way the business world is like nor do they reflect the way we think about it. Another weakness of the book is its age. In a world of rapid changes through scientific and technological progress, it is not suprising that the book is not up-to-date. Today, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) defines the standard model of object orientation. Unfortunately, the book is both incomplete and inconsistent with the UML. For instance, it does not discuss the important concept of associations, it calls attributes "variables", and it uses the terms "collections" and "composition" in a way that is incompatible with the UML.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Clear, Concise, Transformational
Pulls you through quite a thought process. Great step-by-step manual. The diagrams and margin summaries would make several classic PowerPoint presentations.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The future of the software creation
A fantastic EASY book (for: programmers, managers and users) to understand the great potential of the object paradigm to fill the gap between technical and business people. I think this is the future of computer development.
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