Application Blueprinting

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Application Blueprinting

• Planning, Documentation and Design
• Neil Ross neil_at_codesweeper.com

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About Me

• Developing Web Sites and Apps since 95
• Worked for Allaire as CF Instructor and
  Consultant
• Bayer, Lockheed, US Gov, State Govs
• Articles in CFDJ, Inside ColdFusion MX
• Speaker at CF Dev Conf 2000, CFEurope 2003,
  CFUN03/04
• Freelance application design and devel-opment as
  Codesweeper
• CFDJ Award Winner for PhotoFolio app

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Overview

• Application Scope and Design
• Application Architecture
• Detailed Design
• Adalon 2.6
• Components
• Processes
• Functions
• ODBC
• Documentation
• Code Generation
• Close

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Application Scope and Design

• Initial customer interviews and requirements
  gathering
• Understanding the requirements
• Estimation of project scope and resources
• Initial GUI prototyping
• Customer sign off

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About Architecture

• Every application has one, whether planned or
  unplanned
• Architectural perspectives
• Business
• Data
• Technical
• Application

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Application Architecture is

• The general overview of site components and
  screens
• A view of major application concepts and modules
• Not a detailed account of each element of the
  finished product
• A high-level application development and planning
  guide

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High-level Application Architecture

• General overview of screens and process logic
  paths

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Moving Toward Detailed Design

• Understand the application architecture
• Work with colleagues in other disciplines to pull
  together the business, data and technology
  requirements
• Dive deeper into the initial high-level diagram
  and start to look at processes

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Detailed Design

• Is the in-depth, nitty-gritty and ground zero
  view of the application, its processes and
  individual elements

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To Create a Detailed Design

• Understand all architectural perspectives
• Identify all business level processes and rules
• Identify all system functional and technical
  requirements
• Identify data definitions, structure and rules
• Identify technical items (Hardware, Software,
  RDBMS, Language)

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Adalon 2.6

• E-process design tool from Synthis(www.synthis.co
  m)
• Easily create information-rich process diagrams
• Capture initial requirements
• Build complex application process flows
• Import data elements and define rules

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Adalon Terminology

• CFMX Skin and Architectural View
• Screen What is rendered in the browser
• Components Everything is CFC based
• Functions Processes that render screens
• Includes Display, Action and Query
• Diagrams Visual representations of application
  process logic and navigation

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Adalon in Action

• I should be showing you Adalon, not this slide!
• And now, on to the conclusion

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In Closing

• Im NEIL ROSS!!!
• Understanding architecture helps you to
  understand the bigger picture in software
  development
• Adalon is a great tool
• Questions or comments to
  neil_at_codesweeper.com