San Francisco Component Framework

Written by key members of the SanFrancisco team at IBM, this authoritative book introduces the SanFrancisco product, describes its major components, and shows how to use it to create business applications. SanFrancisco Component Framework provides an overview of SanFrancisco's architecture and comprehensive coverage of its three layers: The Foundation, Common Business Objects, and Core Business Processes. Specific topics include:

• An overview of SanFrancisco
  
  • Developing an application
    
  • The driving principles and architecture
  
  
• The Foundation
  
  • Application server support overview
    
  • Application programming model
  
  
• The Common Business Objects
  
  • General Business Objects, such as Business Partner, Credit Checking, and Currency
    
  • Financial Business Objects, including the interface, the general ledger, and
  • Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable
    
  • Generalized Mechanisms, including Cached Balances
  
  
• The Core Business Processes
  
  • General Ledger Core Business Process
    
  • Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable Core Business Process
    
  • Warehouse Management Core Business Process
    
  • Order Management Core Business Process

The book also presents application examples and case studies, and a step-by-step guide to building client applications that addresses such vital topics as multithreaded programs and the SanFrancisco JavaBeans tool.

Table of contents

List of Figures

Preface

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: An Overview of SanFrancisco Development

Chapter 2: Architecture Overview

Part II: The Foundation

Chapter 3: An Introduction to the Foundation

Chapter 4: The Foundation Object Model

Chapter 5: Using the Foundation

Part III: The Common Business Objects

Chapter 6: An Introduction to the Common Business Objects

Chapter 7: Common Business Object Categories

Chapter 8: Using the Common Business Objects

Part IV: The Core Business Processes

Chapter 9: An Introduction to the Core Business Processes

Chapter 10: Core Business Process Domains

Chapter 11: Using the Core Business Processes

Part V: The Client

Chapter 12: Preparing to Build a Client Application

Chapter 13: Using Commands in an Application

Chapter 14: The Presentation Layer

Chapter 15: SanFrancisco JavaBeans

Appendix A: Tools

Appendix B: The CD-ROM

Index