Toward a business-oriented billing framework with JavaBeans™

ABSTRACT

This work is a specification for an enterprise framework, to satisfy billing goals with a concrete division of labor among IT specialists and business analysts. It covers three main aspects: a complete business environment, modeled by IT developers with JavaBeans TM Component API: a billing rule editor for business analysts (without technical knowledge): and finally an engine which translates billing rules in "ready-to-be-used" Java classes, to be instanced during billing process.The benefit this work will try to offer is independence for business drivers: their decisions will never be subjected to software development delays. This is a key factor in highly competitive commercial environments. (1147 words)

REFERENCES

• 1: The JavaBeans Home Page: <u>http://java.sun.com/beans/index.html</u>
• 2: Java™ Technology & XML Home Page: <<u>http://java.sun.com/xml/</u>
• 3: The Swing Connection: <u>http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/</u>
• 4: Jamie Jaworksi , Jamie Jaworski, Java 1.2unleashed, Sams, Indianapolis, IN, 1998
• 5: A. Nakhimovsky, T. Myers. "Java XML Programming". 2000, Wr ox Press.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.3 Software Management
          Subjects: Software development

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: Java
      D.3.3 Language Constructs and Features
          Subjects: Frameworks

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.3 Software Management
          Subjects: Software selection

General Terms:
Algorithms, Documentation, Theory