Specialization layer design examples
The following sample use cases describe the recommended approaches to the specialization of Pega Platform™ applications:
Use case: Define the product at the enterprise level
3Phase Inc. is a large electronics manufacturing company that has been in business for 25 years. Over time, the ability of the company to stock new products and replacement parts has become increasingly complex. The company created a separate Supply Chain Management (SCM) division to manage this issue. Currently, there is no need to specialize in SCM applications by region.
Design a specialization solution that supports this requirement.
Discussion and recommendation
The recommended specialization approach involves defining the product at the enterprise level. Defining utilities such as product selectors are also defined at the enterprise level. This approach enables the SCM and Sales and Customer Service divisions to share the standard product data definition and utilities.
SCM's mission is specialized, ensuring that products and replacement parts are in stock within different regions. The mission of SCM is outside the scope of Sales and Customer Service personnel responsibilities.
As a result of SCM's specialized mission, you develop a unique set of application rules for the SCM division using the case structure PHA-SCM-APP-[Work/Data/Int]. In the future, if you need to specialize rules for a particular region, you can investigate various approaches such as:
- Circumstancing rules by the name of the region, including circumstancing of case type rules.
- Using pattern inheritance specialization by appending the region's acronym, prefixed with a dash, to the class names of case types.
- Building a new implementation application on the existing application specific to the region.
Use case: Create a reusable built-on application
GameMatch is a social media company specializing in introducing members to each other as they play different types of games.
Setting up and running a game is the same for any game, and the rules to play each type of game are different. The entire process runs in the context of the game that members decided, ahead of time, they wanted to play. The system records the moves of each player from game launch to match completion in a database table that is specific to each type of game.
Design a specialization solution that supports this requirement.
Discussion and recommendation
The recommended specialization approach involves creating a reusable built-on application layer for the following reasons:
- The entire end-to-end interaction is similar regardless of the game selected.
- The rules for playing each game are different.
- Requiring users to switch context from one interaction to another is acceptable.
- Separately persisting each interaction is desirable.
You develop a production application for each unique type of game built on a reusable layer specialization.
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