Engineering frameworks: a prerequisite for the design and implementation of distributed enterprise objects
Klaus-Peter Eckert, Peter Schoo · 2002
Presents experiences made during the development of an application framework supporting the design, implementation and deployment of telecommunication services. This paper introduces the concepts of a TINA-C (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium) compliant environment as an example for a framework in an enterprise-specific vertical application domain. The paper shows the necessity to define a supporting engineering framework including a set of related design patterns that allow one 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 (Open Distributed Processing) compliant 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.