Ptt14 Assignment4

Communication

Please start early and submit informed questions, if you like to get help.

Assignment

1. Study provided experience with technology modeling. (Such as lectures on 1 and 8 July)
2. Pick a non-trivial software technology. (See below for inspiration.)
3. Develop a technology model of your chosen technology.
4. Describe your technology model in a structured manner:
   1. What are the key entities?
   2. Importantly, what sort of technology-specific insights do you try to model?
   3. What are the important relationships between the key entities?
   4. Do you need new entity (sub-) types?
   5. Do you need new relationship types?
   6. Use sound notation (such as the one from the lectures)!
5. Link your technology model in a systematic manner:
   1. Link each and every new entity type to a Wikipedia page or alike.
   2. If possible, link all your artifacts to online available example of technology usage.

The "solution" to the assignment is a report ("document") with the description and the links as characterized above.

Software technology options

For reasons explained later, you must not choose Ruby On Rails.

Please contact ed.znelbok-inu|gnaltfos#ed.znelbok-inu|gnaltfos with your ideas.

Object/relational mapping.

You could be covering an Object/relational mapping technology. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Object-relational_mapping for a list of technologies. You are not allowed to choose Hibernate / JPA, as the lecture may cover those to some extent. In fact, you find a significant enough aspect for Hibernate / JPA that is missing in the existing treatment, then please go ahead.

XML data binding

You could be covering an XML data binding technology. See http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDataBinding.htm for a list of technologies. You are not allowed to choose JAXB (Java) and xsd.exe / System.Xml serialization (.NET), as there are existing technology models (in some form).

Web Application Frameworks

Anything goes, except Ruby on Rails and Django. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_application_frameworks for a list of technologies.

Really anything goes

• Content Management Systems
• Version Control Systems
• MDE technology
• Model transformation technologies
• Hosting platforms
• Linked Data technologies
• NoSQL database management systems
• Smartphone platforms
• …

Any other categories of technologies that you would like to consider? Please, get in touch.