Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML

Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt9780321112309, 032111230X

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.