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The ARCUS project has been a cooperation between the

	Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the
	software design & management GmbH & Co.KG, Munich (sd&m),

sponsored by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) under contract 01 IS 508 A 0.

Intent

The ARCUS project used to research architectures for business information systems with a focus on object oriented architecture of Client/Server-Applications. We have worked on three different subjects:

The Design Cookbook summarizes proven architecture and design patterns in the context of business information systems
Formal description techniques for software architecture
A design methodology using patterns

This server contains information about the Design Cookbook. Refer to the TUM server for further information about the two other topics listed above. The Design Cookbook is an approach to summarize design know how as a pattern catalog. It is based on the ideas of the 'Design Pattern' Book of the Gang-of-Four (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides), collecting special patterns we found in the context of business information systems. Topics covered are:

Design in the Large - How to choose the proper top level architecture
Options for the user interface paradigm and appropriate UI architectures
Structuring the business functionality
Database access - A discussion of various database technologies and how to use them
Application services - Error processing, data types and more

We document our material using the pattern approach. We present problem/solution pairs with a detailed discussion of the various alternatives.

Have a look at the Design Cookbook Page to an overview of present and upcoming material.

Invitation

If you like to have a look at our current state of work you can browse the current Table of Contents that has links to all our published patterns in various formats. Feel free to send us any comment on our work concerning contents and linguistic issues. You can get our email addresses on the How To Contact Us page.

Last modified Fri Aug 7 14:26:01 1998
by Klaus Renzel