Designer

Oracle Designer (previously called Designer/2000 and Oracle Case) is Oracle's CASE modelling tool, used for capturing and presenting business requirements. It incorporates support for system analysis, software design, automatic code generation and business process re-engineering.

History and support status

Oracle unveiled its CASE Dictionary and CASE Designer products in 1988:

• CASE Dictionary is a multi-user shared repository for items pertaining to application development projects
• CASE Designer is a graphical "workbench" of tools that enabled computer application analysts and designers to develop diagrams directly on a computer screen and automatically update the CASE Dictionary

Around 1998 Oracle CASE was renamed to Designer/2000. The 2000 suffix was later also dropped.

Oracle Designer is still supported, but is no longer actively being developed and lacks support for new database features.

Components

Oracle Designer consists of the following components:

Business Process Modeling

• Process Modeler (BPR)

Systems Analysis Modeling

• Entity Relationship (ERD)
• Function Hierarchy (FHD)
• Dataflow Diagrammer (DFD)

Design Wizards

• DB Design Wizard (DDW)
• Application Design Wizard (ADW)

Systems Design

• Data Diagrammer (DD)
• Module Logic (MLD)
• Module Data (MDD)
• Preference Navigator (PN)
• Module Structure (MSD)

Code Generators

• Server Generator
• Graphics Generator
• Web Server Generator
• Forms Generator (CGENF45)
• Reports Generator (CGENR25)
• Visual Basic Generator (VBGEN10)
• C++ Object layer Generator (CPPGEN10)
• MSHelp Generator

Utilities

• Matrix Diagrammer (MD)
• Repository Object Navigator (RON)
• Repository Administrator (RAU)
• Repository Reports (REP)
• Repository Utilities (UTL)

Also see

• Designer FAQ - Frequently asked questions about Designer

External links

• Oracle's Designer Homepage
• Oracle Designer/2000 and Developer/2000 Tutorial