Footnotes

Chapter 1

1. Depending on the context, the first activity of application development might be business modeling. The introduction of a new computer application often requires changes to the manual business processes and the way the business is organized. If this is the case, business modeling is a required activity before requirements gathering.

Chapter 2

1. There is at least one other notation that we are aware of that is in competition with the UML. It is called OML or OPEN Modeling Language. The OML is part of a methodology called OPEN, or Object-Oriented Process, Environment, and Notation. OPEN and OML are being championed by Donald Firesmith, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Ian Graham, and Meilir Page-Jones—an impressive roster to say ...

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