application blueprinting planning, documentation and design neil ross ~ [email protected]
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About Me
• Developing Web Sites and Apps since ’95• Worked for Allaire as CF Instructor and
ConsultantBayer, Lockheed, US Gov, State Govs
• Articles in CFDJ, ‘Inside ColdFusion MX’• Speaker at CF Dev Conf 2000, CFEurope
2003, CFUN03/04• Freelance application design and devel-opment
as Codesweeper• CFDJ Award Winner for PhotoFolio app
Overview• Application Scope and Design• Application Architecture• Detailed Design• Adalon 2.6
• Components• Processes• Functions• ODBC• Documentation• Code Generation
• Close
Application Scope and Design
• Initial customer interviews and requirements gathering
• Understanding the requirements
• Estimation of project scope and resources
• Initial GUI prototyping
• Customer sign off
About Architecture
• Every application has one, whether planned or unplanned
• Architectural perspectivesBusinessDataTechnicalApplication
Application Architecture is…
• The general overview of site components and screens
• A view of major application concepts and modules
• Not a detailed account of each element of the finished product
• A high-level application development and planning guide
High-level Application Architecture
• General overview of screens and process logic paths
Moving Toward Detailed Design
• Understand the application architecture
• Work with colleagues in other disciplines to pull together the business, data and technology requirements
• Dive deeper into the initial high-level diagram and start to look at processes
Detailed Design
• Is the in-depth, nitty-gritty and ground zero view of the application, it’s processes and individual elements
To Create a Detailed Design
• Understand all architectural perspectivesIdentify all business level processes and rulesIdentify all system functional and technical
requirementsIdentify data definitions, structure and rulesIdentify technical items
(Hardware, Software, RDBMS, Language…)
Adalon 2.6
• E-process design tool from Synthis(www.synthis.com)
• Easily create information-rich process diagrams
• Capture initial requirements
• Build complex application process flows
• Import data elements and define rules
Adalon Terminology
• CFMX – Skin and Architectural ViewScreen – What is rendered in the browserComponents – Everything is CFC basedFunctions – Processes that render screensIncludes – Display, Action and Query
• Diagrams – Visual representations of application process logic and navigation
Adalon in Action
• I should be showing you Adalon, not this slide!
And now, on to the conclusion…
In Closing
• I’m NEIL ROSS!!!
• Understanding architecture helps you to understand the bigger picture in software development
• Adalon is a great tool
• Questions or comments to: [email protected]