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The NCITS Accredited Standards Committee H7 Object Information Management, now part of NCITS T3 Open Distributed Processing, and the Object Management Group Business Object Domain Task Force (BODTF) will jointly sponsor the Fifth Annual OOPSLA Workshop on Business Object Component Design and Implementation.
This year's focus will be on design and implementation of business object component frameworks and architectures. Important questions are:
- What is a comprehensive definition of a business object component?
- Are the four layers (user, workspace, enterprise, resource) presented at the OOPSLA'98 workshop the right way to layer a business object component system? (Herzum and Sims, 1998)
- How is a business object component implemented across these layers? What are the associated artifacts? Are there different object models representing the same business object component in different layers?
- What are the dependencies between business object components? How can they be plug and play given these dependencies? How can they be flexible and adaptive? How do they participate in workflow systems?
- How will the emergence of a web-based distributed object computing infrastructure based on XML influence business object component architectures? In particular, is the W3C WebBroker proposal appropriate for distributed business object component computing?
Goals of OOPSLA Business Object Component Workshops
- Enhance the pattern literature on the specification, design, and implementation of interoperable, plug and play, distributed business object components.
- Clarify the design and implementation of component based systems, including systems in which workflow patterns and the REA accounting model are basic building blocks for production business systems.
- Contribute to emerging architectures for Intranet/Internet/Extranet applications, particularly those applications that integrate business object components, object and relational databases, and XML.
- Pursue issues developed in previous years workshop stimulated by papers on heterogeneous distributed workflow systems. Specify business object component solutions to mobile agents, process engines, and systems that exhibit emergent behavior. Cross-fertilize business object design concepts with experience from the field of complex adaptive systems.
- Provide explicit experience reports on business object component systems developed and in production.
Organizers:
Jeff Sutherland, IDX Systems Corporation
Email: jeff.sutherland@computer.org
Cory Casanave, Data Access Corporation
Haim Kilov, Genesis Development Corporation
Joaquin Miller, EDS Systemhouse
Dilip Patel, South Bank University |
