MBA Smalltalk: to manage your objects. ESUG 2008, Amsterdam

1. MBA Smalltalk:
to manage your objects
● About
● Idea
● Execution
● Demo

2. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● Cosmocows =
– Founded in feb 2000
– Product idea: “Something with squeak”
– 2001: Cancelled this idea
– 2001 & 2002: Smalltalk consultancy work

3. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● Cosmocows =
– 2003 – 2005: Product development: “the ultimate
contract & invoice configuration management
system”
– 2005 – current: Transformation of ”the ultimate
Contract & invoice configuration management
system” into “MBA Smalltalk” + “Ready” and
“Status”

4. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● “MBA Smalltalk” =
– A tool to develop, deploy, maintain and monitor web
based business administration systems

5. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● Demo “Ready”

7. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● Demo “Status”

8. About:
Us,our products, this presentation
● “This presentation” =
– Showing & explaining “MBA Smalltalk”

9. Index
● About
● Idea
● Execution
● Demo

10. The idea
● Separate disciplines
● “Does my discipline really need to think about this?”

11. Index
● About
● Idea
● Execution
● Demo

12. The execution:
MBA Smalltalk in a nutshell:
– Model description language
– Editor
– Code generator
– Renderer & styles
– Configuration & Lineup builder
– Auto deployer
– Repository
– Monitor

13. Model description language
● Schemas
● Slots
● (Demo)

14. The Editor (first version)

15. The Editor (first version)

16. The Editor (first version)

17. The Editor (second version)

18. The Editor (second version)

19. The Editor (third version)

20. The Editor (third version)

21. The Editor (last version)

22. In combination with:

23. Code Generator, renderer, styles
● Demo
● Demo model
– Person
● Name, address
● Employments
– Organisation
– Function assignments

24. Code Generator, renderer, styles
● Demo
● Demo model
– Person
● Name, address
● Employments
– Organisation
– Function assignments

25. <Advertisements>

26. <Cosmocows reception>
● This evening!

27. <WebTerminal presentation>
● Thursday, 16.45

28. @
Smalltalk not a prerequisite, design principles are!