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An Overview Of SmartObject Technology

The SportsPro sample application’s Order Tracking System solves a realistic business problem that a rapidly growing distribution business might encounter. Because of the importance of high-level planning in object-based application development, it is important to design your application and to plan how to use SmartObjects in the application.

The chapter starts with a brief introduction to SmartObjects. It then describes the design and development phases necessary for creating an application and how the design translates into the required set of SmartObjects and SmartLinks. Finally, it presents some exercises that you can complete to fabricate a SmartDataObject, SmartDataViewer, and SmartDataBrowser using SmartObject templates included with the product. Using existing templates to fabricate new SmartObjects helps you understand the relationship among SmartObjects and the simplicity with which you can create new SmartObjects to build an application.

This chapter covers the following sections:


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