FAN LI, PHD, is the team leader and chief architect of the Merck Basic Research Chemical Information Systems development team. Some of his past jobs include programming analyst for MCI Communications and software engineer for Conduit Software. At Merck, he has received many awards for excellence.

"…a practical how-to guide for applying the Java technology with an object-oriented approach to developing chemical information systems." (E-STREAMS, September 2007)

• 1. Introduction 12. Software Development Principles: High–Low Open–Closed Principles 63. Introduction to the Object-Oriented Approach and Its Benefits 124. Build Versus Buy 235. The Agile and Iterative Development Process 266. UML Modeling 347. Deployment Architecture 388. Software Architecture 439. A Case Study: Develop a Chemical Registration System (CRS) 4910. A Chemical Informatics Domain Analysis Object Model 6111. Presentation Layer 6512. Business Layer 6913. Entity Dictionary 14714. Chemistry Intelligence API 16815. Data Persistence Layer 18616. Put Everything Together 204Bibliography 207Index 209

FAN LI, PHD, is the team leader and chief architect of the Merck Basic Research Chemical Information Systems development team. Some of his past jobs include programming analyst for MCI Communications and software engineer for Conduit Software. At Merck, he has received many awards for excellence.

"…a practical how-to guide for applying the Java technology with an object-oriented approach to developing chemical information systems." (E-STREAMS, September 2007)

• 1. Introduction 12. Software Development Principles: High–Low Open–Closed Principles 63. Introduction to the Object-Oriented Approach and Its Benefits 124. Build Versus Buy 235. The Agile and Iterative Development Process 266. UML Modeling 347. Deployment Architecture 388. Software Architecture 439. A Case Study: Develop a Chemical Registration System (CRS) 4910. A Chemical Informatics Domain Analysis Object Model 6111. Presentation Layer 6512. Business Layer 6913. Entity Dictionary 14714. Chemistry Intelligence API 16815. Data Persistence Layer 18616. Put Everything Together 204Bibliography 207Index 209

FAN LI, PHD, is the team leader and chief architect of the Merck Basic Research Chemical Information Systems development team. Some of his past jobs include programming analyst for MCI Communications and software engineer for Conduit Software. At Merck, he has received many awards for excellence.

"…a practical how-to guide for applying the Java technology with an object-oriented approach to developing chemical information systems." (E-STREAMS, September 2007)

• 1. Introduction 12. Software Development Principles: High–Low Open–Closed Principles 63. Introduction to the Object-Oriented Approach and Its Benefits 124. Build Versus Buy 235. The Agile and Iterative Development Process 266. UML Modeling 347. Deployment Architecture 388. Software Architecture 439. A Case Study: Develop a Chemical Registration System (CRS) 4910. A Chemical Informatics Domain Analysis Object Model 6111. Presentation Layer 6512. Business Layer 6913. Entity Dictionary 14714. Chemistry Intelligence API 16815. Data Persistence Layer 18616. Put Everything Together 204Bibliography 207Index 209