Tuesday
20 Achieving Bottom-line Improvements with
Application and Enterprise Frameworks		 Adam's Mark Hotel
Plaza Court 4
 
Frameworks are specialized for a narrow range of applications, because each model of interaction is domain specific, e.g., designed to solve a narrow set of problems. A framework is more than a class hierarchy. A framework is a reusable, "semi-complete" application that can be specialized to produce custom applications. Frameworks like MacApp, ET++, Interviews, ACE, Microsoft's MFC and DCOM, and implementations of OMG's CORBA play an increasingly important role in contemporary software development. This topic has captured a great deal of attention in recent years since frameworks leverage, in practical terms, capital-intensive software investment through reuse, and higher-level application programming interfaces, so that applications can be developed ten times faster. The emerging focus on object-oriented application frameworks (OOAFs) offers software developers both a new vehicle for reuse and a way for capturing the essence of successful architectures, components, policies, services, and programming mechanisms. OOAFs are a very important issue for the software industry and academia at this time when software systems are becoming increasingly complex. We believe that the OO application frameworks will be at the core of the technology of the twenty-first century. This workshop will examine the OOAFs with respect to three central themes: "How to achieve bottom-line improvements with enterprise and application frameworks", "What are the economical impacts of OOAFs nationally and globally?," and "What is the strategic analysis of application framework investments?

The workshop will debate the strategic budgetary, Marketing, technical, and managerial advantages of OOAFs which impact an organization's bottom-line and its ability to support and adapt to changes in the marketplace. Finally, we will debate the broader economic impact of the enterprise and application frameworks on the organization, national, and international levels. Hamu & Fayad, in Fayad-CACM Thinking O Objectively column, made several claims related to strategic budgetary, marketing, technical, managerial advantages and economical impacts of OOAFs (David S. Hamu and Mohamed E. Fayad. "Achieving Bottom-Line Improvements with Enterprise Frameworks, The Communications of ACM, Vol. 41, No. 8, August 1998, pp. 110-113.)

We want researchers, framework developers, and application developers to answer the following questions:

  1. Are the various claims related to budgetary advantages [in CACM's column] true?
  2. Are the various claims related to marketing advantages [in CACM's column] true?
  3. Are the various claims related to technical advantages [in CACM's column] true?
  4. Are the various claims related to managerial advantages [in CACM's column] true?
  5. How can an organization use enterprise frameworks to reduce the lifecycle cost of producing information systems?
  6. What is the strategic planning process for investments in application framework technology? And what are best reuse investment analysis approaches for OOAFs?
  7. What are of best reuse economic models for OOAFs?
  8. What are the impacts of enterprise frameworks on the national and global economy?

Organizers:

Mohamed E. Fayad, Ph.d, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Email: fayadm@acm.org, m.fayad@computer.org

Wolfgang Pree, Ph.d, University of Constance

David S. Hamu, TRW, Inc.

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