Documentation Sub-systems Identified
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User Management
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Document Component
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Rule Engine
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PDM Integration
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Web Integration
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Text Processing
Enabling Technologies
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Java Servlets
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Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
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eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
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Text Pattern Matching (Apache ORO)
System Architecture
- User Management = Login Handling, User Model Storage and Management.
- Document Component = Data Handling, Report Generation, Basic Component Utilities.
- PDM Integration = Data Monitoring, Data Extraction.
- Text Processing = Dictionary Management, Data Processing.
- Web Integration = Request Processing, Navigation Management, Data Presentation.
- Rule Engine Abstraction = Rule Management, Rule Processing.
Conclusions
- A Framework is presented that models the main concepts of a Documentation System. This framework provides:
- A fully functional system.
- dynamic updating of the product data presented (PDM Integration).
- Personalised output based on processing of XML fragments.
- Text Processing for automatic hyperlink generation (Regular Expresions).
- An extensible framework that can be enriched with further clases to provide custom solutions.
Further Work
What happens as the selection and processing tasks become more complex ?
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Will the framework become over complicated ?
What happens when we want to change the strategies used ?
What happens as the product becomes larger ?
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How much processing power will we need ?
