Business Object Component Design and Implementation Workshop V: Component Architectures

23 December 1999 - Papers presented at OOPSLA and proceedings.

Ghica van Emde Boas. The Role of XML in Java Development Tools. IBM San Francisco Project.

• Ghica joined us from the XML workshop at OOPSLA and showed how an XML document could compile directly into a runnable component in the IBM San Francisco framework. Here are here slides.

Fred Cummins. Enterprise Integration with Workflow Management. EDS.

• Fred was one of the organizers of the OOPSLA'99 Workflow Workshop and presented this paper in the Business Object Workshop.

Patel , D., Sutherland, J., Miller, J., (Eds.) Business Object Design and Implementation III: OOPSLA'99 Workshop Proceedings. Springer, 1999.

I have a few personal copies for $35.50.

Patel , D., Sutherland, J., Miller, J., (Eds.) Business Object Design and Implementation II: OOPSLA'96, OOPSLA'97, and OOPSLA'98 Workshop Proceedings. Springer, 1998. Order from Amazon.com. Order from FatBrain.com.

Sutherland, J.V. , Patel, D., Casanave, C., Miller, J., Hollowell, G., (Eds.) Business Object Design and Implementation. Springer, 1997. Order from Amazon. Order from FatBrain.com.

New book published by Springer prior to the Workshop

• Click on link above for 12 complete papers submitted by June 1999, reviewed, and accepted for publiction in a book of proceedings by Springer prior to the workshop.

Papers submitted after 30 June

• Fred Cummins. Enterprise Integration with Workflow Management. EDS.
• J.J. Dubray, Yuzo Fujishima, P. Curtin, A. Chaloori. An eXtensible Object Model for Business-to-Business eCommerce Systems. NEC Systems, Littleton, MA, USA.
• Richard T. Dué. Millenium Rules! Cutter IT Journal 12:8:14-18, August 1999.
• Pavel Hruby. Object-Oriented Architecture of Business Process Catalogue. Navision Software, Denmark.
• Chris Marshall. Model Purposes, not Processes. SES Software, Marietta, GA, USA.
• Kevin Rasmus. Strategies for Integrating Legacy Systems with a Common Business Object Model. Country Companies Insurance, Bloomington, IL, USA.
• Trygve Reenskaug. Multi dimensional layering of business object component systems. Oslo, Norway.
• Jeff Sutherland. "Big Workflow" for Enterprise Systems. IDX Systems. Cross posted from Workflow Workshop.
• Ghica van Emde Boas. The Role of XML in Java Development Tools. IBM San Francisco Project.

Focus of Business Object Component Workshop V

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. A few interesting 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? (See 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?

Final Report on Business Object Component Workshop IV - PDF Format

Early Publication of Workshop Proceedings

• The 1999 Business Object Workshop papers submitted by June 1999 will be published as a book by Springer Verlag. Papers submitted on time are at Springer for publication now. Later submissions will be presented at the Workshop and are candidates for publicaton in next year's book.

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.

Attendance

• Attendance to the workshop is limited to facilitate lively discussions and the exchange of ideas. Participation will be by invitation only, based on the organizing committee's evaluation of the submissions. Accepted participants will be notified in September 1999.

Submission to Workshop 28

• Prospective participants are solicited to submit a 2-3 page position paper or experience report, in HTML, Word or RTF format, by e-mail to jeff.sutherland@computer.org, no later than 15 September 1999. All submissions must include the full contact information of at least one author.
• Position papers will be placed on the Web for review.

Background

X3H7 Object Information Management

• Refine the enterprise language, explicating the relationship of an enterprise specification of a system to other RM-ODP viewpoint specifications of that system, so as to enable the RM-ODP to be used for specification of object-based application architectures.
• Ensure that the enterprise language together with the other viewpoint languages is suitable for the specification of a concrete application architecture to fill a specific business need.
• Measure success with a demonstration of the use of the RM-ODP viewpoint languages to specify a concrete application architecture.

OMG Business Object Domain Task Force (BODTF)

• the use of OMG distributed object technology for business systems
• commonality among vertical domain task force standards
• simplicity in building, using, and deploying business objects - for application developers
• interoperability between independently developed business objects
• the adoption n and use of common business object and application component standards

Organizers:

Jeff Sutherland, Chair - jeff.sutherland@computer.org

Fred A. Cummins - fred.cummins@eds.com

Haim Kilov - haim_kilov@ml.com

Joaquin Miller - joaquin@acm.org

Dilip Patel - dilip@vax.sbu.ac.uk

Links

• Design Patterns
• MIT Information Mesh
• NIST ATP FOCUSED PROGRAM: Component-Based Software
• NIST Process Specification Language Project
• OMG Commmon Facilities RFP4: Common Business Objects and Business Object Facility
• OMG Agent Working Group Home Page
• OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation
• OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation II
• OOPSLA'97 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation III
• OOPSLA'98 Workshop on Business Object Component Design and Implementation IV
• Santa Fe Institute
• UMBC AgentWeb
• X3H7 Object Model Features Matrix

References

[Mano98] Manola, Frank. Towards a Web Object Model. Position Paper for the OMG-DARPA-MCC Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures. Object Services and Consulting, Inc., 1998.

[OMG99] OMG Agent Working Group. Agent Technology Green Paper. 30 March 1999.

[Holl95] Holland, John H. Hidden Order : How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

[Odel98] Odell, James. Agents and Beyond: A Flock is Not a Bird. Distributed Computing, April, 1998.

[OOPS95] OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation II. 10th Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications Addendum to the Proceedings. OOPS Messenger 6:4:170-175. ACM/SIGPLAN October, 1995.

[OOPS96] OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation II. 11th Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications Addendum to the Proceedings. OOPS Messenger, ACM/SIGPLAN, 1997.

[OOPS97] OOPSLA'97 Workshop on Business Object Design and Implementation III. 11th Annual Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications Addendum to the Proceedings. OOPS Messenger, ACM/SIGPLAN, 1998 (in press). Download PDF, RTF, Word versions.

Patel , D., Sutherland, J., Miller, J., (Eds.) Business Object Design and Implementation II: OOPSLA'96, OOPSLA'97, and OOPSLA'98 Workshop Proceedings. Springer, 1998.

Szyperski, Clemens. Component Software : Beyond Object-Oriented Programming. Addison-Wesley, 1998.

"A software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit contet dependencies only. A software component can be deployed independently and is subject to composition by third parties." 1996 ECOOP Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming.

Sutherland, J.V. , Patel, D., Casanave, C., Miller, J., Hollowell, G., (Eds.) Business Object Design and Implementation. Springer, 1997.

[Wegn95a] Wegner, Peter. Interactive Foundations of Object-Based Programming. IEEE Computer 28:10:70-72, Oct 95.

[Wegn95b] Wegner, Peter. Models and Paridigms of Interaction. OOPSLA'95 Tutorial Notes.

Workshop on Integrating XML and Distributed Object Technologies

Abstract: The Internet world is being transformed before our eyes as open standards such as XML are being rapidly adopted. The XML technologies are being seen as harbinger of various new functionality in numerous domains ranging from electronic commerce to electronic publishing to healthcare delivery to manufacturing to insurance. Various object-oriented technologies and standards such as Java, CORBA and DCOM have also progressed rapidly in the past few years. At this time, the industry and academia are seriously looking at the intersection of these technologies and what it means to the future of the object-web paradigm. This workshop aims to bring together participants who are seriously investigating the combined use of these technologies to support practical application needs in a variety of domains. The goal of this workshop is to investigate how XML and Distributed Object technologies such as Java, CORBA and DCOM can be integrated leveraging the strengths each have to offer.

• Integrating XML and Distributed Object technologies
• Advances in XML: DOM, SAX, XSL, Schemas, XLink as it relates to Objects
• Advances in CORBA 3.0, Java, DCOM as it relates to XML
• Tools and utilities that facilitate integration of XML and object-technologies
• Application of XML and Object technologies in E-commerce, Finance, Healthcare, Publishing, Insurance and Manufacturing and System Integration. The purpose of these examples should be to show specific successful integration approaches of XML and objects.