Design of Commercial Object-Oriented Applications - The Patterns

The tutorial describes the techniques used to develop a typical commercial application (just like a thousand others) - a multiuser order processing and production control package for a medium-size company, based on a relational database, with a large number of Windows clients.The main objective was not just building this particular application but designing strategies to produce this type of application in a general way using a "object oriented cookbook". So the most important result is a collection of patterns especially targeted at this type of application, together with the associated generators; a "Toolkit for generating a business application".Using such a cookbook it is possible to design and generate "everyday" commercial applications very fast -but still produce very general, maintainable and extendable software.The tutorial will point out not only the final recipe but also the way it was found and the dangerous pitfalls to avoid. It will help the participants to see a familiar activity in a new light.