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The Emergence of a Business Object Component Architecture

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Object technology, a necessary but not sufficient condition for software reuse, requires an infrastructure that supports plug compatible Business Object Components for fast and flexible delivery of new or enhanced products to the marketplace. The Object Management Group (OMG) Business Object Domain Task Force (BODTF) has been the initial focal point for standardization of a Business Object Component Architecture (BOCA).2 Priming this effort required joint work of the OMG BODTF, the Accredited Standards Committee X3H7 Object Information Management3, and their joint sponsorship of the OOPSLA Business Object Component Design and Implementation for the years 1995–99.

This paper serves as a retrospective on some of the conceptual issues driving BOCA standardization and the global effort to build a unified set of life cycle standards for component based systems. Initial tools are available that will generate BOCA applications from an annotated UML design document. Generating complete systems from design will radically accelerate implementation of business processes in software.

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  1. IDX Systems Corporation, 116 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02116, USA

    Jeff Sutherland (SVP Engineering and Product Development Chair, OOPSLA’95-’99 Business Object Component Workshops)

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA, UK

    D. Patel

  2. IDX Systems Corporation, 116 Huntingdon Avenue, Boston, MA, 02116, USA

    J. Sutherland

  3. Electronic Data Systems, 5500 Wayzata Blvd., Ste 200, Golden Valley, MN, 55416, USA

    J. Miller

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Sutherland, J. (1999). The Emergence of a Business Object Component Architecture. In: Patel, D., Sutherland, J., Miller, J. (eds) Business Object Design and Implementation III. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0881-8_4

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