6.2. e-business and objects

Object-oriented application development offers unique opportunities to an e-business application. “Development methodologies” on page 153 and “Object-oriented concepts” on page 155 present you with some of the terminology and opportunity that exist.

6.2.1. Development methodologies

The traditional waterfall model of development is shown in Figure 6-1.

Figure 6-1. A traditional waterfall model of development

After signing off a phase, the next phase can be started, and each phase always covers the entire system. Even though we can introduce subsystems, we talk about very course granularity. We also know the drawback: ...

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