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CA 2E and the Application Development Life Cycle

CA 2E supports the use of a top down, structured, data-driven application development life cycle. The application development life cycle is illustrated in the following diagram.

The application development life cycle provides direction during the design and generation of a CA 2E application. This tutorial provides instructions to complete each of the stages listed in the diagram.

1. Determine the application requirements.
2. Describe data in the form of a CA 2E data model. The data model is the basis for everything designed within CA 2E.
3. Design the functions that will operate on your data.
4. Prototype your functions to test your design.
5. Return to your design model to specify additional functionality.
6. Generate and compile your application.