The Open Business Object Environment (OBOE) project will implement (and to some extent anticipate) the Object Management Group (OMG)'s envisioned "Business Object Facility". This will be an advanced platform for Business Objects.

OBOE will deliver a set of Business Objects that will demonstrate the use of a Business Object Facility built from platform technology provided by two suppliers who are Partners in the project. These Business Objects will illustrate new features such as the capability of Business Objects to be integrated into useful solutions by "users" without the need for special skills.

This capability, known as "plug-and-play" is crucial to the objectives set out in paragraph 1.14 of the FP-IV work programme.

The Objectives

• Prism BOF implmentation that builds on the lessons learned from OpenBase
• A sophisticated and convincing user demonstration (based on Geco's seismic application)
• Literature on the Business Object Methodologies and for the Prism BOF
• A test suite related to the conformance aspects of ORB technology
• A set of reports

• The Project Description
• The User Case Study
• The Partners
• The Bibiography