Object-Oriented Construction Handbook

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Interactive Application Systems and Persistence

In most application systems, materials have to be managed over an extended period of time. For this purpose, the most common core components of application systems are database systems with their special services, such as efficient data repository, and multiuser and security concepts.

For the T&M approach, it is important to find a domain-motivated architecture to connect an application system to a database system. Based on the T&M concept for workplace types (see Section 3.6), we introduce two important application types:

Persistence and workplace types

1. applications for expert workplaces, and

2. applications for functional workplaces.

From an application-oriented viewpoint, persistence ...