Business Archetype Patterns for MDA: Literate Model

The authors explain their theory behind developing a set of business archetype patterns that model common software packages, then provide eight patterns for simplifying the development of such software. Based on the unified modeling language (UML) activity diagrams, the patterns offer a consistent architecture and semantics for organizing information about parties across business domains, relationships between parties, goods and services, inventory management, order processing, payment, and business rules. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Jim Arlow has been programming and designing object-oriented software systems since 1990. He has created object models for blue chip companies such as British Airways and M&G. He is a respected OO consultant in Europe and has written and delivered many training courses on object technology and Java. Jim is a regular speaker at conferences such as Object World, and has been an invited speaker at University College London, City University, and the British Computer Society.

Ila Neustadt has worked in IT for British Airways for more than twenty years and has experience of all parts within the IT development life cycle. She worked in the strategy department modeling the architecture process and developing architecture training, and acted as program head for the graduate business analyst program. Ila now coordinates skills development for BA™s IT staff.