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Objectives

CA 2E incorporates a number of industry standard methodologies in application development such as entity-relationship modeling and object-based design. Although CA 2E is a modeling and specification tool, your end product is not just a design; it is a working application system.

CA 2E separates the process of design from implementation. In addition to clarity in development, you benefit in the following ways:

• Changes to the specification can be applied automatically throughout the application design
• Improvements or changes to the implementation can be made independently of the specification
• The same design can be used to implement applications for several different operating systems and environments

Using CA 2E, you receive the following benefits:

• Easy design of applications that are closer to your end user's requirements
• Support in designing better quality applications
• Create applications that are easy to maintain and enhance as your business evolves
• Design applications independently of the language in which you implement them
• Develop systems that make an effective use of the architecture for which they are targeted
• Enable you to design and generate applications multiple times faster than traditional methods