In particular, the internal design of components, particularly the aspects related to component evolution, component configuration, distribution, concurrency, and scalability, are not addressed by conventional component models. Handling these issues effectively remains the responsibility of component developers. Frank Buschmann is Software Engineer at Siemens Corprate Technology in Munich, Germany. His research interests include object technology, software architecture, application frameworks, and patterns. In his development work, Frank has lead the design and implementation of several large-scale industrial software projects, including business information, industrial automation, and telecommunication systems.
Objects provide a perfect foundation for developing web applications.
Joe DeSantis directs object technology development at InterSystems Corporation. This legacy wrapping solution offers a general central function interface to existing programs defined from the business view by means of business requests. Due to reuse and synergy, the introduced overall system offers easy access, high stability and security, short response times and a small error rate thus promising a very short pay back period at the same time. After working experience in the mainframe environment Ruth is working in the fields of object oriented analysis and design and component technology. She was envolved in the design and development of the Legacy Wrapper Framework described in her presentation.