From: John Barrie Subject: NESOFTDEV May 6th Special Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 9:20 PM Your presence is requested. I have brought you a focus on application frameworks at every opportunity. Peters talk is pure business solutions and much more. The essence of the presentation is language independent, and, the stuff of our future. This is an opportunity to hear it from the master. Please support our efforts to bring national speakers to the Boston area. We can do it you know. 1) Note: 2) Special Meeting 1) no regular meeting on May 11; this meeting is it for May 2)Event: neSOFTdev Special Meeting When: May 6, 7:30 p.m. Where: Cafeteria at Prospect Place * Ground Floor * 9 Hillside Ave., Waltham, MA, 128/90, Exit 27a Contact: JohnBarrie@compuserve.com, www.BTDnet.com/neSOFTdev Who: Peter Coad What: JavaTM Modeling in Color with UML: Enterprise Components and Process "Java Modeling in Color with UML" is the first presentation (and forthcoming book) to teach software design in color. In it, Peter Coad uses four colors to represent four archetypes, little forms that appear again and again in effective models. Given a color, you'll know the kind of attributes, links, methods, and interactions that class is likely to have. Exciting, dynamic models. For any business. For every business. Little color building blocks that will help you build better models and get the recognition you deserve. Color and archetypes are only the beginning. Coad goes further, plugging those archetypes into a domain-neutral component. This 12-class domain-neutral component is a factoring-out of useful model shaping based upon many hundreds of component and object models. Every model Coad has built over the past decade follows the shape and responsibilities expressed in this one component. Some call this one component, "modeling secrets revealed". Coad goes even further, taking the domain-neutral component and applying it in a wide variety of business areas. So you end up with specific examples for your business, examples you can relate to, readily understand, and benefit from. "Java Modeling in Color with UML" delivers 61 ready-to-use, domain-specific components--in the forthcoming book and on its CD (the CD includes Together(R)/J Whiteboard Edition for modeling in color, along with the component models and skeletal Java source code). These in-depth, annotated examples will help you build better Java models and apps. Now you can have at your fingertips an exclusive collection of expert examples. It's almost like having Peter Coad at your side, guiding you toward better and more effective design. Real business content. Highlighted modeling tips. Examples that really make sense. You'll find components in each of these categories: make or buy (material-resource, manufacturing, facility, and inventory), sell (cash sale, product sale, customer account), relate (human-resource, relationship), and support (accounting, project activity, and document). On top of all of this, Coad presents Feature-Driven Development (FDD), the process for getting the most out of your Java modeling and development. FDD is a proven-in-practice way to take Java models and produce frequent, tangible, working results. With FDD, you'll not only be able to deliver frequent results, you'll also be able to know exactly where you are in a project, what your completion percentage really is, even when developing in Internet time. Peter will also deliver a sneak preview of Together/J 3: patterns, components, and simultaneous round-trip engineering. Peter Coad (pronounced "code") is the lead author of the first book to integrate color and enterprise components into a model-building approach. Peter is one of the world's most experienced model builders (many hundreds of models in nearly every industry imaginable). His current consulting practice focuses on Java-inspired modeling for building better enterprise-wide applications. His company, Object International, delivers workshops, mentoring, and software, "helping teams deliver frequent, tangible, working results." pc@oi.com www.oi.com