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Development of BROOM Business Rules Object-Oriented Method
The question is then, how can we model Terms of a business rules system in an
object-oriented way using UML? Terms (Layer 2) in a business rules system
(Layer 1) can be modeled by considering its components (Layer 3) - List of Entities
and List of Attributes of the system along with the characteristics of these
components.
TERMS DATA MODEL (TDM)
As proposed in the above section, to model the terms of a business rules system,
the components (Entities and Attributes) found in Layer 3 of Figure 5 above are
considered. Accordingly, there are two data models for relational database tables:
(Cf. the business rules metadata model presented in Section 4.4.5.2 of this thesis)
Table 2: List of Entities Data Model Design
No. Field Remark
1. TermID This is a Primary Key
2. Description Describes the Entity
Table 3: List of Attributes Data Model Design
No. Field Remark
1. TermID This is a Primary Key.
2. Description Any description of the attribute.
3. Type Attribute type such as Text, Integer, Boolean, Date, and so
on.
4. Size The size of an attribute (applies to text type).
5. IsDervied Shows if an attribute is derived one. (It is a Yes/No
type).
6. Default Value Attribute’s default value, if any.
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