Object Design Advice

mfauzi

Hi all,
I am developing a new system to manage legal process and cases.
The rules are:

A person can be a plaintiff or a defendent
A case will has one plaintiff and more than one defendent

My question on best approach are:

Should I create a separate plaintiff object and defendent object or
should I create a single object person

If I choose option 2, then how do I recognize who is the defendent or plaintiff
How do I handle signin for each option mention above.

I really appreciate if anybody can guide me on this matter.

tford

Option 1 would my choice.

Not sure what you mean by "How do I handle signin for each option mention above."

The sample apps that come with AwareIM give great examples of users with different roles.

mfauzi

Thanks for the input,
my concerns is that a business rule also mentions that a person can be a plaintiff in on case, but he also can be a defendent in another case.
On top of that both the plaintiff and defendent has the same object properties.

That is why I am trying evaluate which is the best option.

thanks

ACDC

I would create a Case object that has Plaintiff reference to a Contact object and a Defendant reference to the same Contact object

When creating a Case then the Plaintiff and the Defendant would be selected from the Contact object

So all the sign in rules are managed in the contact object, and you could list all cases where the Logged User is a Defendant or either a Plaintiff etc etc

mfauzi

Thanks ACDC, that what I thought and plan to do. It will have all the plaintiff/defendent in one place.

regards