When considering this month’s special section on component-based enterprise frameworks, I was reminded of the photomosaic works of Robert Silvers. You’ve probably seen many examples of this artist’s work in recent years. He specializes in conjoining and layering hundreds of small images to form a totally different, yet recognizable, image. Indeed, the April 1998 cover […]
October 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 10
Features
Computer science departments at U.S. colleges and universities are facing a depleted teaching staff as more professors test the entrepreneurial waters, reports the New York Times. While the hot economy has created a fair amount of turnover, observers say the current brain drain has not reached a crisis point. Many institutions are feeling the pinch […]
Forum: What Defines a Programming Relic?
Glass’s differentiation of art versus practice is right on the money (July 2000, p. 15). But what I see as the problem for the mature practitioner (besides the smugness of the younger ones) is not necessarily overcoming technical obsolescence but emotional obsolescence. And this is what upper management and the young practitioners sense as well. […]
Drastic steps to take oneself out of the grid in order to regain privacy and anonymity in the white noise of the Net.
Viewing software development as knowledge acquisition and ignorance reduction.
Component-Based Enterprise Frameworks
Recently, while exploring the ancient Mayan temples and pyramids in Guatemala, I was impressed with the pure technical achievement given the tools available to those ancient builders. The stairs on many of these structures are extremely steep, with each step being quite high. I found the easiest way to navigate the stairs was to climb […]
Modeling Components and Frameworks with -UML
As localized objects evolve into distributed components, developers are asking that UML provide better support for component-based development using EJB and COM+.
Enterprise Frameworks Characteristics, Criteria, and Challenges
Identifying critical issues for selecting or building enterprise frameworks.
Lessons Learned Through Six Years of Component-Based Development
Adjusting to new processes and techniques is an important aspect of project success.
A Hierarchical Framework For Parallel Seismic Applications
Supporting the use of frameworks in the distributed parallel platform.
Component-Based Frameworks For E-Commerce
The software paradigms of component-based frameworks for e-commerce promise to provide companies with the speed and agility they need to compete in Internet time.
The -Ups and Downs of Object-Oriented Systems Development
If experienced developers believe so strongly in the advantages of OO systems development, why is there such controversy about the value of using it?
Enterprise Computing Environments and Cost Assessment
This OO enterprise computing framework model and its complementary cost-assessment model help design enterprise systems' far-flung objects and related business processes while calculating the costs of their planning, development, maintenance, and improvement.
On the -Usability of OO Representations
Paying close attention to the tasks OO is best suited for—rather than assuming it's the best option every time—may be one way to maximize the usability of OO approaches.
-Using the Lessons of Y2K to Improve Information Systems Architecture
Organizations miss a tremendous opportunity for gain by regarding the Y2K experience solely as a costly necessity they would just as soon forget.
Toward Intelligent Business Objects
Focusing on techniques to enhance BOs that exhibit goal-oriented behavior.
Readers of this column are familiar with the risks of illegal monitoring of Internet traffic. Less familiar, but perhaps just as serious, are the risks introduced when law enforcement taps that same traffic legally. Ironically, as insecure as the Internet may be in general, monitoring a particular user’s traffic as part of a legal wiretap […]
