Naked Objects

Description

Naked Objects is a radical approach that exposes the core business objects directly to the user, instead of masking them behind a task-oriented user interface. This invaluable book describes the business case for designing systems this way, outlines a lightweight methodology that you can adopt, and provides a short tutorial.
  
* Defines "Naked Objects"-an Open Source toolkit for prototyping expressive systems that you can freely download
  
* Covers theory and practice, and includes several real-life illustrations of Naked Objects in practice
  
* Contains all the information necessary to construct a Naked Objects project

FEATURES:

* Defines "Naked Objects"-an Open Source toolkit for prototyping expressive systems that you can freely download
* Covers theory and practice, and includes several real-life illustrations of Naked Objects in practice
* Contains all the information necessary to construct a Naked Objects project

CONTENTS:

Introduction.

  
Acknowledgements.

  
Version information.

  
1. A critical look at object-orientation.

  
A brief history of objects.

  
Five practices that separate procedure and data.

  
Defining a new approach.

  
Case study: Government benefits processing.

  
2. Introducing 'naked objects'.

  
The Naked Objects framework.

  
The benefits of naked objects.

  
Frequently Asked Questions.

  
3. Programming with Naked Objects.

  
The anatomy of a naked object.

  
Making the objects available to the user.

  
Building a multi-user system.

  
Enriching object behaviours.

  
Writing tests.

  
Case study: Retail marketing and pricing.

  
4. A development process.

  
The exploration phase.

  
The specification phase.

  
The delivery phase.

  
Case study: Arrears and collections.

  
5. Extending Naked Objects.

  
Additional documentation available on our website.

  
Some ways in which Naked Objects could be extended.

  
Will naked o bject systems scale?

  
Case study: Energy trading.

  
Appendix A: Getting started.

  
Appendix B: Code example.

  
Apendix C: Cliché code.

  
Appendix D: Icon library.

  
Bibliography.

  
Index.