[Cobold-developer] ideas and discussion issues

[oliver c. <oli...@fo...>]

hello cobolds,

this is a short protocol about the dicussion we had yesterday:

please feel free to correct and change!

- separation of entities and behaviour
a basic pattern must be, to separate value objects and business logic. in
that way the datamodel can be modeled and implemented regardless of any
semantic functions that use a lot of different entities. if the behaviour
would be inside the data objects, there would exist a very ugly network of
close coupled objects.

- back end design
given the fact, that Chiba is a fix component of the cobold architecture,
the other major issue to think about is the creation of a back end that fits
into the Chiba architecture. It needs tests and prototyping to develop an
efficient work flow to achieve 1) a well defined application framework and
2) a pragmatic software development process.

- GUI / navigation
since the GUI part of chiba as today is suboptimal in terms of easy
deployment of individual design, it seems to be a good idea to embed chiba
inside another front end component like a cms or portal framework (e.g. jet
speed etc.).
it is an unsolved issue to integrate a modular and flexible front end design
into xForms.

- Chiba integration
being the first and only applicable software component of cobold, chiba is
to be beta tested to develop a prototype for a complete system. first steps
will be to port the form4 jforce framework and adapt it to the chiba
controller.

- Use Case XML / documentation
with the goal of a generative system in mind, there could be first versions
of descriptive XML for UseCases, data model and business logic. Since form4
already has some experience in usecase implementations, a basic XML to
describe the requirements to generate UseCase source code should be
developed in the next time.

- MDA / UML 2.0
since the generative view of software development is becoming more common
and is in the press constantly, it must be validated, how MDA specifications
and UML 2.0 can be deployed to be a part of the cobold project.


so far for now...
:olliC

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