Chapter 7: Application Design

Overview

This chapter provides design guidelines for solution designers and application developers. It addresses the design stage of the solution development process.

The objective of this chapter is to highlight those key design issues that are specific to a pervasive and portal solution.

The chapter starts with basic e-business and Self-Service application design, then goes into details about the sample application that was developed for this book.

The majority of the chapter goes into details about certain design guidelines, such as:

• Model-View-Controller design

• Object-oriented design

• Portal solution design guidelines

• Mobile application design guidelines