NAKED OBJECTS

Naked Objects is a radical approach that exposes the core business objects directly to the user, instead of masking them behind a task-oriented user interface. This invaluable book describes the business case for designing systems this way, outlines a lightweight methodology that you can adopt, and provides a short tutorial.
* Defines "Naked Objects"-an Open Source toolkit for prototyping expressive systems that you can freely download
* Covers theory and practice, and includes several real-life illustrations of Naked Objects in practice
* Contains all the information necessary to construct a Naked Objects project

Richard Pawson is a Research Fellow with Computer Sciences Corporation, specialising in object-oriented techniques and agile software development.

Robert Matthews is a freelance software architect and Java developer. He is the principal author of the Naked Objects framework.

They are the co-founders of nakedobjects.org.

Introduction.

Acknowledgements.

Version information.

1. A critical look at object-orientation.

A brief history of objects.

Five practices that separate procedure and data.

Defining a new approach.

Case study: Government benefits processing.

2. Introducing 'naked objects'.

The Naked Objects framework.

The benefits of naked objects.

Frequently Asked Questions.

3. Programming with Naked Objects.

The anatomy of a naked object.

Making the objects available to the user.

Building a multi-user system.

Enriching object behaviours.

Writing tests.

Case study: Retail marketing and pricing.

4. A development process.

The exploration phase.

The specification phase.

The delivery phase.

Case study: Arrears and collections.

5. Extending Naked Objects.

Additional documentation available on our website.

Some ways in which Naked Objects could be extended.

Will naked o bject systems scale?

Case study: Energy trading.

Appendix A: Getting started.

Appendix B: Code example.

Apendix C: Cliché code.

Appendix D: Icon library.

Bibliography.

Index.