Engineering Frameworks: A Prerequisite for the Design and Implementation of Distributed Enterprise Objects
Abstract
The paper presents the experiences made during the development of an application framework supporting the design, implementation and deployment of telecommunication services. It introduces the concepts of a TINA-C-compliant (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium) environment as an example for a framework in an enterprise specific, vertical application domain. The paper shows the advantages of the definition of a supporting engineering framework including a set of related design patterns that allow to design application frameworks in a technology independent way. It presents the major concepts of a related middleware that has been designed as an ODP-compliant (Open Distributed Processing) distributed processing environment and that has been implemented in a heterogeneous CORBA 2 (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) environment. The presented work is a part of the research and development program of GMD FOKUS and builds the core of the Y middleware.
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October 1997
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Published: 24 October 1997
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