Oracle Designer Handbook

Designer (formerly Designer/2000) is Oracle's powerful CASE tool that assists you in creating systems that reflect the business needs and requirements of your organization. Using Designer to capture and manage the voluminous data Involved in application system development you can develop better applications--on target and on budget.

This unique handbook guides you through each step of the CASE Application Development Method (CADM), a methodology that integrates Designer Into the development process. The authors' complete exploration of the goals, processes; and deliverables for each step 1. The CADM process is balanced with practical how-to discussions based on actual experiences.

Software designers and developers can use this guide to:

• Build systems from the smallest to the largest using a comprehensive development method fully integrated with Designer Version 2.1
  
• Fine-tune finished product using Designer's robust
  
• Design and build Web and Oracle, Developer applications and Oracle8 objects
  
• Successfully manage a project using the tips and techniques of experts

To quickly plan and build high-quality applications in less time, use
Oracle Designer and the only officially Oracle-authorized book to
explain it in detail: Oracle Designer Handbook, Second Edition.

Table of contents

Part I Getting Started

1 Introduction To Systems Design Methodology

2 Introduction to Oracle Designer

Part II Life Cycle Phases

3 Strategy

4 Oracle Designer in Strategy

5 Pre-Analysis

6 Oracle Designer in Pre-Analysis

7 Analysis-information Gathering

8 Oracle Designer in Analysis-Information Gathering

9 Analysis-Requirements Analysis

10 Oracle Designer in Analysis-Requirements Analysis

11 Pre-Design

12 Oracle Designer in Pre-Design

13 Design-Database Design

14 Oracle Designer in Design-Database Design

15 Design-Application Design

16 Oracle Designer in Design-Application Design

17 Build

18 Oracle Designer in Build

19 Test, Implementation, and Maintenance

20 Oracle Designer in the Test, Implementation,

21 Change Control

Part III Additional CADM Activities

22 RAD-CADM

23 Start in the Middle

24 Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

25 Data Migration

Part IV Additional Oracle Designer Activities

26 Application System and Repository Maintenance

27 User Extensibility

28 Application Programmatic Interface

29 Information Flow