A Method for Systematically Building Object-Oriented Framework Based on UML

Abstract

Recently, object-oriented（OO）frameworks have been known to be highly effective and practical for software reuse. However, most of the current software development methodologies do not provide effective methods and instructions for modeling OO frameworks. Therefore, effective OO framework modeling techniques are needed. In this paper, we use Unified Modeling Language（UML）as representative object-oriented methodology to provide the OO framework development techniques. The proposed process consists of three typical phases: analysis, design and implementation, and each phase is defined as a logical sequence of development tasks. Since the proposed process is based on UML diagrams and the basic Objectory perspectives, we believe that OO frameworks can be more efficiently developed by utilizing the proposed process, and higher quality OO frameworks can be produced. In order to show the applicability and effectiveness of the process, we present a case study of Business-to-Costumer Electronic Commerce application.