About the Book:Software Components for the Enterprise describes the concepts and components of modern distributed enterprise-level software systems for business. The book is more precise than most business-oriented books, and less technical than most object-oriented books in the field. The author describes a specific system model that has been successfully implemented over a number of years. This model has been well accepted by business professionals from many different domains because it describes software systems in language that is familiar to them. The book fuses object technology, workflow, data warehousing, and distributed systems concepts into a single coherent model that is sufficiently simple for most readers to understand. The business concepts presented are supported by designs using UML and illustrative examples in Java and XML. The accompanying CD-ROM contains software tools and an extremely valuable set of business objects to support the analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise-wide information systems using distributed object technology.About the Author: Chris Marshall has been responsible for initiating and managing the development of large scale, mission critical, enterprise wide systems since 1979. He is a member of a number of professional engineering and management bodies, and has contributed to the business object domain task force of the Object Management Group and to business object design and implementation workshops at OOPSLA. He has also contributed to the development of many business engineering components and tools, including the Rascal and BOMA product ranges, the RoseBOMA Link, which is a companion product to Rational Rose, and several enterprise application components. He was previously a general manager and director of a number of divisions of Barlows, then the largest manufacturing group in South Africa. 0201433133AB04062001