In Scenario 3, Main Street Hardware asked LitWare, Inc. to design an application to track the progress of employees as they pursued certifications in job-related skills. The team at LitWare reviewed the requirements and realized that the application had the potential to be useful in many environments that track performance and achievement, such as schools or training centers.
LitWare, Inc. decided to enter into a nonexclusive partnership with Main Street Hardware to develop the application on which Scenario 3 is based. In return for a lower fee, Main Street Hardware permitted LitWare to market the finished product to other customers.
Scenario 3 tells the story of how LitWare developed an application that uses technologies available in the Microsoft® Windows® DNA platform to address the following business problems:
The scenario also describes how LitWare globalized the application so that it could be presented in different languages.
Each targeted use for the application is called an "arena." The development plan calls for an application with a single infrastructure, including business logic and data services, to serve the different clients that use each arena.
The PT application is extendable to any industry. As delivered with the BDG, it supports a generic arena and a hardware store arena. The generic arena is available in German, Japanese, and U.S. English, and the hardware store arena is available in U.S. English. Understanding and Deploying Arenas describes how you change arenas, deploy multiple arenas, and create a new arena.
The following topics describe how Main Street Hardware presented their business problem and how LitWare began modeling the arenas and the infrastructure on which the application is based: