SanFrancisco Life Cycle Programming Techniques

SanFrancisco Life Cycle Programming Techniques will take you from a novice to an expert level. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of the Life Cycle pattern and the know-how to develop your own Life Cycle-based applications. The book provides essential background on the use of life cycle control in application design. It describes and explains SanFrancisco's Life Cycle pattern and reveals the SanFrancisco mechanisms that support the pattern. Concrete examples from the SanFrancisco Order Management Core Business Process demonstrate building, customizing, and extending order types using the Life Cycle Pattern.

Moving beyond the basics, you will find a practical, task-oriented guide to building a real-world, multi-client Life Cycle-based application, along with tips for relational database configuration. You will learn how to extend SanFrancisco's predefined order types as well as create an entirely new order type using the Life Cycle pattern. An extensive example of a customer service application demonstrates the use of Life Cycle design methodology and programming techniques.

Whether your focus is on order management or some other important business process, this book offers the understanding and tools you require to make full use of SanFrancisco Framework's powerful Life Cycle pattern.

Table of contents

Part 1: Introduction to Life Cycle Programming

Chapter 1: IBM SanFrancisco

Chapter 2: Overview of Life Cycle and Existing Order Types

Part 2: Life Cycle Programming with Order Management

Chapter 3: Life Cycle Static and Dynamic Structures

Chapter 4: Construction of the Static Impact Hierarchy

Chapter 5: Creating an Order

Chapter 6: Accessing, Using, and Deleting Order Details

Chapter 7: RDB and Extended Schema Mapping for Orders

Chapter 8: Multiclient Considerations

Part 3: Do-It-Yourself Life Cycle Programming

Chapter 9: Extending an Existing Order Type

Chapter 10: Roll-Your-Own Order Type

Chapter 11: Life Cycle Design of Customer Service Application

Appendixes

Glossary

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