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A situated evaluation of the Object Management Group's (OMG) Object Management Architecture (OMA)

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Kurt C. WallnauAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 31, Issue 10

Pages 168 - 178

https://doi.org/10.1145/236338.236353

Published: 01 October 1996 Publication History

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It has been difficult to objectively assess the real value or maturity of the Object Management Group's Object Management Architecture (OMA). While experience reports have appeared in the literature, these have focused more on the functionality of the end-system than on systematically exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the OMA, and providing practical guidelines on the effective use of the OMA for specific software-engineering problems. In this paper we describe a case study in the use of the OMA to integrate legacy software components into a distributed object system. We assess the OMA in this problem context, and indicate strengths and weaknesses of the specification and current implementations. We extrapolate our experience to a broader class of component-based software systems, and recommend an architectural strategy for the effective use of the OMA to this class of systems.

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Souder TMancoridis S(1999)A tool for securely integrating legacy systems into a distributed environmentSixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (Cat. No.PR00303)10.1109/WCRE.1999.806946(47-55)Online publication date: 1999
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Index Terms

A situated evaluation of the Object Management Group's (OMG) Object Management Architecture (OMA)
1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
    1. Computer-aided manufacturing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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Vossen G(2005)The CORBA specification for cooperation in heterogeneous information systemsCooperative Information Agents10.1007/3-540-62591-7_26(101-115)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2005
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