Create a Business Domain Model

The Business Domain Model provides the business vocabulary - the terms and facts - on which Business Rules can be modeled. In Enterprise Architect a Business Domain model is represented as a conceptual Class diagram, as illustrated by this diagram for the Car Rental System example from the EAExample model.

In the Business Domain model shown in this diagram, the Classes Rent, Customer, Car and Application, together with their attributes and operations, provide the terms for the business vocabulary for the car rental system. The Class Rental System processes the rules; to make this possible, you add a Rule Flow Activity as a behavior for this Class.

When you create a Rule Flow Activity under a Class, you model the events and sequence as a structure of Rule Tasks (Actions). When you generate code for the Class (in the example, Rental System) the rule flow behavior is rendered as a method inside the Class.

Alternatively, if you have existing operations in the Class that already suit the purpose, you can model business tasks in those operations. When code is generated for the Class, the rules logic is generated as the method body for the corresponding operation.

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