Concrete Examples of Software Factories?!?
I've been reading each of the Software Factories articles with great interest. Part 1 and part 2 did a particularly good job describing the elements of the problem space, I thought. However, when I get to part 3, I was ready to see a solution. Instead what I got was a long abstract piece defining the bits of what makes up a software factory. This is the kind of thing I'd be ready to read after I was shown a concrete example or two of working, running software factories. Do other people like reading these long, abstract articles? I find them tedious unless they're filling in and generalizing the details of something that I've already got a handle on.
Chris Sells
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Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:53 AM
I completely agree with you Chris. Show me an example implementation, and real world benefits before making me digest the inner bits of it all. I mean really, I'd rather choose to continue on reading about the abstract pieces if I personally found value in an example, not waste my time digesting it all, just to be turned off later.
Andrew Baum,
Sunday, November 07, 2004 11:51 AM
Amen to that. So far, I can't tell if there's anything more than marketecture to this whole Software Factories thing.
Mike Gunderloy,
Monday, November 08, 2004 8:48 AM
Sean Schade,
Monday, November 08, 2004 10:38 AM
Thanks for the review Chris. I'll defer judgement on the subject until after I've had a chance to read it myself.
http://blog.magenic.com/seans/archive/2004/11/08/416.aspx
Sean Schade,
Monday, November 08, 2004 10:39 AM
To tell you the truth this is one of my greatest pet peaves. Example, I watched a presentation about integration services in the new SQL srv and all it was where flow diagrams... no concrete examples. It drives me crazy becuase you know they can define a problem, but what about the resolution? "Here's my blackbox, all you need to do is stick input in one side and it will out put exactly what your lokking for... now buy it."
Tim,
Monday, November 08, 2004 11:02 AM
For concrete examples of software factories, check out IBM's new eclipse-based development environments customized or vertical markets or BEA's development environments designed to develop web service apps specifically for their platforms. Personally, I find this to be an old idea as I have developed a VB-like system for developing specific seismic processing application software on Solaris for the oile inductry. You could visuall create widgets and write 'code-behind' for them in C, Fortran or Bliss. This was before VB sometime in the mid-late '80s.
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SharpDog,
Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:24 AM
At first glance, I shrugged and said "Zachman" all over again.
On second glance, I shrugged and said "Object Graph" all over again.
On third glance, I shrugged and said "Where's the Beef?"
I don't intend on a fourth glance.
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