Objective
Main Objective
OSM PLUS, an extension of OSM (AC211), is centred around the specification of an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for object based Electronic Commerce based on a distributed asynchronous communications backbone.
Technical Approach
With IIOP interoperability for CORBA, and a diverse set of distributed object services, the OMG's Object Management Architecture has come of age as a tool for expert programmers to generate complex multi-tier systems. The Object Management Architecture and CORBA are on the verge of a next step, the provision a component framework enabling CORBA objects, representing both client-side and non-visual server-side functionality. Unsophisticated programmers will assemble these objects into systems, using visual development tools and scripting languages.
Based on the CORBA distributed object model from the OSM Project AC211, the OSM PLUS Project will specify a development environment capable of supporting the construction, deployment and execution of dynamic electronic commerce business components.
Development Environment for Distributed Object based Electronic Commerce Unlike classic application development, the deployment of electronic commerce objects mixes the local information technology domain with an open market domain. Products and Services that are made available under contract in the marketplace will be built on a foundation of external business services - added value will be provided through enterprise service and product offers layered above existing market offers. This is comparable to linking together a new application with libraries held and maintained in different organisation, but not under the consumers' control.
By tightly integrating the IDE with the Internet we introduce the ability for the dynamic coupling between externally available resources and local development. This tight coupling will be enabled through "agency" facilities (OMG ECDTF Reference Model) and/or Business System Domain interfaces which provide the points of presence for external enterprises, and the entry point for resource and services in the marketplace.
OSM Electronic Commerce Business Platform
Summary of Trial
No trial is planned within the OSM PLUS Project, however, an OSM compliant facility will be publicly available under iiop://home.osm.net (refer to the OSM web site http://www.osm.net(opens in new window) for details).
Expected Achievements
The expected achievements of OSM PLUS is to continue the promotion of advanced solutions to object based commerce towards international standardisation bodies, and secondly, to enable specification for the subsequent development and deployment of an interactive development environment for electronic commerce components.
Expected Impact
Implementation of OSM PLUS results will have a direct impact on the ease in which Electronic Commerce Components can be defined, deployed and executed. These results will enable a lowering of the technical threshold required by organisations participating in an emerging global economy.
Key Issues
Key issues to be dealt with by the OSM PLUS Project include the management of service construction based on potentially different target profiles, service deployment across divergent policy domains, and policy management including policy federation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- social sciences economics and business business and management commerce e-commerce
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