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inso

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Structured Analysis and Java? Posted: Nov 6, 2003 5:27 AM
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Hello,

I currently have an inventory control system to design and implement. I am only familiar with structured analysis techniques. I prefer using java as my programming language, but people told me in order to use java i have to perform an Object-Oriented Analysis for the system.
Can't i use structured analysis to find my tables and then build the application in java to handle those tables?

My second question is if i use OO analysis and java can i use Microsoft Access for my DBMS? Is there a way of mapping the objects to an access database?

Thank you in advance!

inso


vivek oswal

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Re: Structured Analysis and Java? Posted: Nov 24, 2003 11:48 PM
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hey,
I currently have an inventory control system to design and implement. I am only familiar with structured analysis techniques. I prefer using java as my programming language,
>> Why do you prefer java as your PL!

but people told me in order to use java i have to perform an Object-Oriented Analysis for the system.
>> Well it is not an absolute necessity, but
>> applying structured analysis and design can cause
>> an impedance mismatch, although you can pretty much
>> carry out your requirements specification thing using
>> whatever techniques you want and apply some light weight
>> OOAD method to drive the design and implementation from
>> there on...

Can't i use structured analysis to find my tables and then build the application in java to handle those tables?
>> Yes you can, java does not enforce any restrictions
>> on the kind of analysis that you carry out! ;-)
>> Also note that, OOAD methods are more above behaviour
>> rather then finding tables, so you will still need to do
>> something about associating roles and behaviour to your
>> objects...infact, finding tables is a side-effect of
>> this activity!

My second question is if i use OO analysis and java can i use Microsoft Access for my DBMS? Is there a way of mapping the objects to an access database?
>> Yes you can. you can use OR mapping tools from apache
>> or elsewhere!

cheers,
vivek

inso

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Re: Structured Analysis and Java? Posted: Jan 15, 2004 1:35 PM
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Hi,

I prefer java because is a language that i want to become familiar with. Kind of personal goal ;)

Thanks for your reply.

inso

Stefano

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Re: Structured Analysis and Java? Posted: Jan 16, 2004 6:04 AM
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> Hello,
>
> I currently have an inventory control system to design and
> implement. I am only familiar with structured analysis
> techniques. I prefer using java as my programming
> language, but people told me in order to use java i have
> to perform an Object-Oriented Analysis for the system.
> Can't i use structured analysis to find my tables and then
> build the application in java to handle those tables?

Using Java like Cobol or Pascal or C is possible...Base Java syntax is much like C ANSI so you can try...You can also make structured analysis but you must known some object orieted base concepts so you write more flexible code with Java...
A little example...about the "procedure concept"...
You have everywhere procedure...OK! Make a "procedure object", like this...

public class Procedure{ ... }

Other procedure make this...

public class ReadAccoutTableProcedure extends Procedure{...}

As you can see, you must known any base concepts about object(what is object, what is inheritance, what about composition...but you must study object if you want learn JAVA)

>
> My second question is if i use OO analysis and java can i
> use Microsoft Access for my DBMS? Is there a way of
> mapping the objects to an access database?
>

You can use Microsoft Access: standard support with JDK(for WIN plat.) is a bridge to Access, so it's simple...The ORMapping is a "big cake" so look at this: http://www.objectarchitects.de/ObjectArchitects/orpatterns/!!! But ATTENTION you must known OBJECTs...

> Thank you in advance!
>
> inso

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