Business Object Design and Implementation II

Business Objects.- Business Object Management Architecture.- Working with Business Objects: A Case Study.- Business Objects and Business Rules.- Business Objects for Front-Office Applications: Making Domain Experts Full Partners.- Open Distributed Processing and Business Objects.- The Business Component Approach.- Workflow.- Using Intentional Information to Coordinate Inter-operating Workflows.- Building Workflow Business Objects.- Structuring Specification of Business Systems with UML (with an Emphasis on Workflow Management Systems).- A “Light” Distributed OO Workflow Management System for the Creation of OO Enterprise System Architectures in BPR Environments.- Essential Requirements for a Workflow Standard.- Fitting the Workflow Management Facility into the Object Management Architecture.- Services of Workflow Objects and Workflow Meta-Objects in OMG-Compliant Environments.- Using Components in Workflow Activities.- An Object Implementation of Network Centric Business Service Applications (NCBSAs).- Modelling and Framework Issues.- Organization in a Chaotic World.- Business Object Component Architectures: A Target Application Area for Complex Adaptive Systems Research.- Modelling Domain Specific Application Frameworks with a Dynamic Business Object Architecture: An Approach and Implementation.- A Business Object Modelling Approach to Develop a Customer Services Domain Framework to Enable Horizontal Reuse Across Industries.- EMPOWER: An Object-Oriented Business Information Systems Framework for Learning Organisations.- Author Index.