Workshop 22: OO technology in large financial institutions
Chris Laffra · 1995
This workshop brought together people that have experience with applying 00 techniques for developing application in (large) financial institutions.We highlighted specific problems, solutions, and lessons learned, together with their individual applicability, strengths, and limitations. Goals and FocusFinancial institutions are believed to have special requirements: o Rapid changes.The business changes very fast.Application development is a matter of months, weeks, sometimes even days.The average life span of a typical developer is measured in less than a couple years.o Difficult technical problems to be solved (such as analysis of a given market.)Challenge is to encapsulate (black-box) legacy systems into the "new" 00 environment.These legacy systems often have been developed by programmers that have long since disappeared without makiig any documentation.o Reuse.Most firms have settled the "object" reuse matter by reusing many different GUI development toolkits and foundation classes.However, a more important sort of reuse is in developing an enterprise wide reuse strategy, based on distributed 00 systems, where end user applications issue request with object servers running on LANs and WANs.Different standards for distribution need to be considered, in addition to performance, robustness, and security.