The Emergence of a Business
Object Component Architecture
Abstract.
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 products to the marketplace. The Object
Management Group (OMG) Business Object Domain Task Force (BODTF) was the initial
focal point for standardization of a Business Object Component Architecture
(BOCA). Priming this effort required joint work with the Accredited Standards
Committee X3H7 Object Information Management, and their joint sponsorship
of the OOPSLA Business Object Component Design and Implementation Workshop
for the years 1995-99. Emergence of W3C XML standards will further enhance
BOCA and enable a distributed business object system that provides interoperability
between disparate enterprise applications on the Web.
Keywords. Interoperability, Business Object Component Architecture
Patel , D., Sutherland, J., Miller, J., (Eds.) Business Object Design
and Implementation V: OOPSLA'99 Workshop Proceedings. Springer, 1999 (full
text available at the Workshop).