Amarco Designer
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General presentation
2.1
Support of the Amarco method
Amarco Designer implements the following concepts of the service oriented Amarco method:
Internal and external architecture of systems
Service points
Requested service and rendered services
Create scenarios using services. A scenario is a chain of actions made of requested services,
rendered services, events and internal processing in objects. Each scenario step has a
number. A scenario may contain up to five execution threads.
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Essential functions implemented by Amarco Designer
The basic functions implemented by this software are:
Define system architecture and distinguish between
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Contained objects
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Containing objects
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External objects (agents)
Define object coupling and the sense of this relation with service points
Define service exchanged through service points: requested services, rendered services,
events.
Define scenarios mapped on the system structure and using services
Animate scenarios
Create new assemblies with existing objects
Store and retrieve information into a database.
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Management of scenarios and scenario animation
After defining the system structure, you can map a scenario on this structure. Then you can save this
scenario in the database. For a better view you can also animate the scenarios, step by step,
Also you can define service qualities associated to each step, so you can generate with Amarco Repository
and Amarco Cartography Unistep® scenario graphs.
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How Amarco Designer works
Amarco Designer essentially manages structures (containers). According to Amarco, a structure may
contain internal objects, as well as associated external objects.
