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The development of business information systems based on business object components as defined by the OMG is going to complement and simplify the conventional approach to object-oriented software development. The intention is to enable end users and business experts to assemble “plug-and-play” business objects without the help of IT experts. In spite of the reduction of complexity to be expected, a model-based approach to systems development is still essential. Business objects are not only well suited as modeling concepts in software engineering, they may even be used in the context of business engineering. This paper describes different aspects of modeling business objects with the Unified Modeling Language and evaluates its aptitude for that purpose.
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Korthaus, A. (1998). Using UML for Business Object Based Systems Modeling. In: Schader, M., Korthaus, A. (eds) The Unified Modeling Language. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48673-9_15
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