iAnywhere Water System User Manual

What is an OOM?

An OOM contains a set of packages, classes, interfaces, and their

relationships. These objects together form a class structure that is the logical

design view of all (or part of) a software system. An OOM is essentially a

static conceptual model of a software system.

You use PowerDesigner Object-Oriented Model to build object-oriented

models (OOM). You can build an OOM for purely object-oriented modeling

purposes, to generate Java files or for PowerBuilder, or you can use objects

from an OOM in a Physical Data Model (PDM), for relational database

design analysis.

When modeling objects graphically, you use diagrams such as the class

diagram.

You can use an OOM to:

♦ Represent the physical organization of objects in a graphic format

♦ Generate Java class source files

♦ Generate PowerBuilder objects

♦ Reverse engineer Java class source files

♦ Reverse engineer PowerBuilder objects

♦ Generate a Conceptual Data Model (CDM)

♦ Generate a Physical Data Model (PDM)

There are several ways to create an OOM:

♦ Create an OOM from scratch

♦ Import one or more existing OOM

♦ Generate an OOM from a Conceptual Data Model (CDM)

♦ Generate an OOM from Physical Data Model (PDM)

♦ Import a Rational Rose model (.mdl)

OOM roles

OOM creation