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Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology, ASSET, is a United States Department of Defense project to promote the reuse of computer software and software-related products.

ASSET maintains a reuse library based in Morgantown West Virginia. We offer free access to a variety of software artifacts, which include source code and reuse oriented documents. More information about ASSET, acquiring an account, and a hyper-text catalog of our holdings can be found at the URL "http://source.asset.com/".

The following is the abstract of a sample asset:

ASSET_A_721: Object Oriented Designer Object Oriented Designer (OOD) was built by Professor Taegyun Kim [ktg@taejo.pufs.ac.kr] at Pusan University of Foreign Studies Pusan, Korea.

Object Oriented Designer [OOD] is a case tool for constructing the object diagrams defined in OMT. In order to use OOD it is necessary to understand OMT and its graphical notation. The Object Modeling Technique [OMT] by James Rumbaugh et al. is a methodology for object oriented development with a graphical notation for representing object oriented concepts. ("Object-Oriented Modeling and Design", James Rumbaugh et al.)

Why "OMT"? OMT evolved from the Extended Entity Relationship [EER] model. There are a number of other approaches to expressing object oriented concepts but Professor Kim believes that OMT is superior to most of these. Yourdon's Object Oriented Analysis [OOA] notation, for example, is another excellent approach to the problem but has some limits in functionality, particularly with respect to data modeling, that are present in OMT.

Currently, OOD has the following primary functions:

general graphics editor (with limited functionality)
object diagram layout (with some additions w.r.t. original OMT notation)
C++ code skeleton generation (header file + source file)

The comments and codes for individual member functions can be documented, or edited within OOD directly. The C++ code generator supports inheritance. Professor Kim claims that his students learn to use OOD in a day even without a manual, attributing the user-friendliness of OOD to OOD's object oriented, user interface mechanisms.

ASSET services are available free to all software practitioners. ASSET computer access is available through modems or via Internet. To use ASSET and extract components, a user account is required. For applications or for more information, contact our business office at (304)-594-3954, e-mail at info@source.asset.com, or write to: ASSET, 2611 Cranberry Square, Morgantown, WV 26505.

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