adio frequency identification (RFID) technology is rapidly becoming ubiquitous as businesses seek to streamline supply chains and respond to mandates from key customers. But RFID and other new wireless ID
equence diagrams are used to map out class interactions. A sequence diagram is made up of objects, each with its own object lifeline. Interactions between the objects occur by messages
n the first article in this series, we explained the concept of associations in UML and showed how to implement them. This article takes that knowledge one step further and
he UML association is a concept that is often misunderstood. The most common misperception is that an association is the same as a pointer, or maybe two pointers, in a
he problem with developing enterprise applications is you have to reinvent the wheel for each key area, such as configuration, database access, or security. Microsoft has addressed this problem in
ccording to Clemens Szyperski (author of “Component Software?Beyond Object-Oriented Programming,”), software components are binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system. He continues
n a UML class model, classes are described by having attributes, operations, and relationships with other classes. When such a model is converted into code, both the public attributes and
ecently, I was talking with a Java developer who was fairly new to the SAP world but claimed to already be an ABAP expert. He was commenting on the ABAP
ometimes runtime performance requirements determine which programming language I use. For flat out runtime performance, I have always found that natively compiled Common Lisp or C++ really do the trick.