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A Flexible Object-Oriented Software Architecture
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portions of the framework that are actually required and included in a given
hardware configuration.
5. THE TRACKER PRODUCT LINE
The functional scope of the application as modeled and implemented in the
course of the project was limited to basic requirements, aiming to prove the
flexibility of both the overall architectural concept and the middleware framework
rather than create a full-fledged alternative model and implementation
at that point in time. The modeled and implemented functionality is described
by the use case diagram of Figure 9-5.
As has been detailed before, the tracker application product line was meant
to (finally) be both a full-fledged tracking application and a basis for customizations
by customers. As such, modeling it in UML offered immediate
benefits regarding documentation and thus maintainability on the manufacturer’s
as well as adaptability on the customer’s side.
A product line approach was chosen because the actual platform on which