Description:

The RBA letter generation system is a document automation system for generating two types of documents: a benefit ratings document, and a summary letter. Both documents share the same input data, but vary significantly in format. The input data sources are Oracle and MS Access databases. The generated documents are Microsoft Word (Rich Text Format) documents. System requirements included ease of use in modifying the document layouts, placement and selection of content (i.e., not custom programming).

The letter generation system was developed on a MS Windows platform, using Visual C++ and Rogue Wave classes (a non-functional requirement was future migration of other platforms, particularly Unix. Therefore, use of platform-specific libraries and MFC classes was minimized). All C++ classes were modeled in UML and generated from Rational Rose.

The letter and ratings documents were designed in Microsoft Word with tags indicating where content is to be inserted (with data from the database). The package is callable from a Visual Basic user interface which pass keys to the content to be inserted in the documents.