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Related Work Business Rules Object-Oriented Method
the procedural codes. Arsanjani and Yoder et al. provide Rule Object and Adaptive
Object Models (AOM) respectively. AOM is related to Model Driven Architecture
(MDA) of OMG [40]. These two works are based on the standard design patterns
and are proven in various practical applications. For example, most of the design
patterns of [63] are the standard ones (i.e., Type-Object, Properties, Composite,
Strategy, Interpreter, and Builder).
Arsanjani [3] supported his work by presenting known application areas such as
IBM San Francisco, If-Then-Else Framework [13], IBM WebSphere Application
Server Enterprise Edition, and Component Broker’s Manager Object Framework.
Implicitly, however, both Arsanjani and Yoder et al. assume that the standard 2
UML is adequate for representing the models of the pattern language. To that end,
the work of Fountoura et al. [17] presents an extension of UML for better
representation of the configuration design patterns.
3.6 REQUIRED TOOLS
This section presents a review of the available technologies such as repository
systems, rules engines, and other support tools assisting the development of a
business rules system with the very intent of separating business rules from the
procedural codes and database constructs.
3.6.1 REPOSITORY SYSTEMS
Persistence of objects is not very well addressed in the OOA even though object
concepts have been around since 1967 [44]. However, it has been worked in, for
example, Object Relational DBMS (ORDBMS), which is a marriage of OOP and
database technologies [1, 34, 62] and persistency of object less its operations (i.e.,
2 Here, the term standard stands for the original OMG UML 2.0 Diagrams, before extended/modified
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