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Speaker:        Edward Cheng
                Director of the OCT Research Laboratory
                Chairman and CEO of eGuanxi, Inc.
                CEO of HKB2Bnet

Topic:          "OMM/RAD -- A Model and Methodology for Rapid Application
                 Development in eBusiness Application Environment"

Date:           Friday, 26 October 2001

Time:           2:30pm - 3:30pm

Venue:          Room 2404
                (Phase I, via lift nos. 17/18)
                The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

ABSTRACT:

Many software developers rely on Rapid Application Development (RAD)
products to design, prototype and code applications.  Most of these tools
focus on OO design methodology and programming language, along with code
management tool to support class reuse and application programming
interface to database management systems.  Until now, RAD has demonstrated
its usefulness in completing smaller company internal projects.  When
applying to model, design and develop more complex eBusiness applications,
such as supply-chain collaborative software or distributive project
management application, current RAD falls short in modeling the complex
application environment.  Its automatic code generation scheme is also
limited to generating class files and lacks support in generating the
presentation layer which often represents 50% of the implementation
effort.

OMM/RAD is a RAD technology which includes a model, a methodology and a
tool to support development of large and complex eBusiness applications.
By applying the OMM Unifying Information Model (UIM), OMM/RAD is able to
tap into multiple data sources and presents a consistent OO model to
support application design.  Through the use of a rule-based engine, it
abstracts class associations within the application space into
context-rich business policies.  The OMM/RAD modeling tool allows users to
graphically model an entire eBusiness application, the class diagram and
the association rules. It also supports automatic code generation of both
the class files and the JSP pages representing the front-end web pages of
the application.  Using the OMM/RAD methodology, developers drastically
cut down application development time.



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Biography:

Edward Cheng is the director of the OCT Research Laboratory which has
collaborative research with Stanford University, University of London and
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  He is also the Chairman
and CEO of eGuanxi, Inc., a software company which focuses on intra- and
inter-company collaboration technology.  In addition, he is the CEO of
HKB2Bnet, a dynamic exchange site in Asia Pacific.  He was a director and
architect at Oracle Corporation, where he headed up the Workflow Lab and
the Collaborative & Distributive Computing Lab.  Prior to that, he was an
architect and senior manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he
led the R&D team to deliver ObjectFlow, an object-oriented workflow
product.  In the late eighties, Edward led an engineering team at Hewlett
Packard to accomplish a 2,000% performance improvement on HP SQL and
published numerous papers on query optimization algorithm.  His research
interests and other publications include process automation technology,
eBusiness collaboration, enterprise modeling and  management, fuzzy logic,
high performance OLTP systems, journaling and recovery, and distributive
databases.

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