Software Flexibility Improvement for Document Oriented Applications

The paper describes new techniques to increase flexibility for document-oriented software using appropriate database structures, templates and/or XML files. This approach gives an opportunity to the developer to add an arbitrary document by request, each time when this is needed. The described principle makes the adding of a new document easier, avoiding to modify the structure of the database or deploy a new executable when a new form and a corresponding new document is needed in the system. An easy-to-use procedure is completely defined based on two case studies. Expected results are discussed.