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The main purpose of building a process repository is to maximize code reuse
especially as a data centric product line. All the products come from this
line will have reasonable percentage of similarity in between, before deciding
the structure of our repository. We start defining a model for a data application,
this model includes all identities that should exist into any custom application.
Any database application will have a main menu which contains all the necessary
choices which represents the elementary jobs of the application, any of
these choices will be chosen by the application user to raise his need to
start this job, in most cases the application will respond to the user with
a dialogue through which the user will define typically what he would like
to do, and then the application will start executing the required job for
the user. In a sentence any database application will be consisted of a
menu with choices and number of dialogues each elementary job of an application
will map to certain activity in the user business, as the function of the
application is to let user automate their business. We can categorize the
elementary jobs inside any data baseapplication into three main categories: |
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Basic Data |
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A business basic data is the
collection of objects that have a relation between each other to establish
business. For instance if we are talking about objects like Store - Product
– Supplier & Customer, these collections of objects create a trading
business. We call this object a basic data object because usually it will
be defined to the application one time, also when you define a customer
to the application you define it one time. The same thing for Supplier &Product. |
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Transaction Data |
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Any business has daily actions
which express the business activity. This action is another collection of
objects that represent the business daily activities. Example of these objects
is invoices, payments, etc. |
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Reports Data |
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Usually any business needs
to analyze its data to know its current situation and sometimes needs to
review the history of actions that is yield to the current situation. The
report object is a collection of objects that define current status or review
for a business solution, for example the current due payments or the current
outstanding. |
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| The previous
tree diagram shows how a data base application for a small trading
business will be constituted from a menu containing choices, each
of them will activate a dialogue that will help the user to do a job
through the application. Any of these dialogues will have similar
fields of data entry that the user will fill, and same commands through
which the user will fire actions. Finally we ended up with four identities
that constitute any data base application. |
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| Menu |
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| A number of
choices represent the application elementary jobs. |
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| Object |
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| Define a piece
of data inside the application this piece express the full details
& actions of an elementary job. |
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| Field |
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| Define the
smallest part of the application data and represent a part of an object. |
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| Action |
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| A Defined
activity that can be fired against object. According to the previous
explanation of a data base application nature, we build our repository
to store these four types ofidentities to be available for reuse in
any new application. This new application will use some of these identities
and also will add another new ones which will be available for future
applications. |
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