The San Francisco project
Verlyn Johnson · ACM Computing Surveys · 2000
This paper provides an overview of IBM's San Francisco Project.The goal of the project is to simplify the move to distributed object oriented applications.This is being accomplished by providing developers with an object oriented infrastructure and a starter set of object framework code for their applications.The project includes an infrastructure for distributed object applications, business objects that are common across multiple domains, and domain specific Business Process Components that contain a subset of the objects and business logic that are needed to build a commercial application.The Business Process Components are designed as business frameworks so that they can be changed and extended.Developers can learn to build object oriented applications by modifying the application code that is provided instead of having to design and build their applications from scratch.