OOPSLA'2000 Workshop Proposal

Business Object Component Design and Implementation VI: Enterprise Application Integration

Abstract

The NCITS T3 Open Distributed Processing (ODP) Technical Committee, and the Object Management Group Business Object Domain Task Force (BODTF) will jointly sponsor the Sixth 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 used for enterprise application integration (EAI). Important questions are:

• Enterprises are using integration of the intranet/extranet/internet to link internal divisions, external partners, and customers to radically reduce costs while increasing value. What role do business object components have in support of integration of the value chain?
• Integration of legacy systems, packaged software, and newly developed systems is essential in ecommerce applications. How can business object component technology facilitate this integration?
• How can business object component concepts improve XML/SOAP implementations designed to integrate enterprise applications? How would a business object component be defined if the data is XML objects and SOAP is used for remote method invocation?
• What business object component design strategies enhance semantic interoperability between disparate internet/intranet systems?
• How can workflow interoperability be achieved across enterprise systems using business object component technology, particularly when HTTP/XML/SOAP is used for distributed system interoperability?
• What about reference models, requirements definition, standard modeling languages (UML), and programming languages for enterprise application integration?

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 enterprise application integration.
• Contribute to emerging architectures for Intranet/Internet/Extranet applications, particularly those applications that integrate enterprise applications using 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.

Agenda

The agenda for the workshop will consist of four sessions of presentations of position papers and discussion relevant to enterprise application integration: Business Object Components, Workflow, Modeling and Framework Issues, and the User Experience. A discussion session at the end of the day will assess the state of the art of enterprise application integration using Business Object Component Design and Implementation. Position papers will be placed on the Web for review. The OOPSLA 2000 Business Object Workshop papers will be published as a book by Springer Verlag prior to the Workshop.

Submission

Prospective participants are solicited to submit a 5000-6000 word position paper or experience report, in HTML, Word or RTF format, by e-mail to jeff.sutherland@computer.org. Position papers will be placed on the Web for review. Selected Business Object Component Workshop papers may be published in a book by Springer Verlag prior to the Workshop if they are received by the Springer 31 May deadline. See Instructions for Camera Ready Copy. Papers may be submitted up to the OOPSLA deadline for presentation at the workshop and acceptance will be in accordance with the OOPSLA schedule. Papers submitted after 31 May 2000 are candidates for publication by Springer in a subsequent year's proceedings.

Organizers:

Fred Cummins – fred.cummins@eds.comEnterprise Architect
EDS
5555 New King St. MS 402
Troy, MI 48098
Phone: +1 (248) 696 2016

Haim Kilov – hkilov@gendev.com
Genesis Development Corp.
10 North Church St.
4th Floor
West Chester, PA 19380, USA

Dilip Patel - dilip@vax.sbu.ac.uk
Chair, Centre for Information and Office Systems
South Bank University
School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics
103 Borough Road
London, SE1 0AA, UK
Phone: +44 0171 815 7429

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