Tool integration: experiences from the BOOST project

Author

Gautier, R.J. ; Loftus, C.W. ; Sherratt, E.M. ; Thomas, L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

fYear

1995

fDate

5-7 Apr 1995

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

181

Abstract

The BOOST project aims to support the development of telecommunications services by establishing effective ways of creating object-oriented service creation environments (SCEs). A major part of the project has entailed the constructing SCEs by integrating existing software tools. This paper evaluates different approaches to tool integration, covering both integration by encapsulation within an existing environment, and direct tool-to-tool integration. The use of Tcl, a language to increase tool programmability, is discussed, and examples illustrating its application in BOOST are provided. Finally, a general mechanism for direct tool-to-tool integration, and an approach towards fully open, active environments and services are presented

Keywords

data encapsulation; object-oriented programming; programming environments; software tools; telecommunication computing; telecommunication services; BOOST project; Broadband Object Oriented Service Technology; Tcl; encapsulation; object-oriented service creation environments; open active environments; software tools; telecommunications services; tool integration; tool programmability; tool-to-tool integration; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer science; Documentation; Encapsulation; Intelligent networks; Software engineering; Software tools; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Environments [Conference], 1995., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Noordwijkerhout

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7093-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SEE.1995.393619

Filename

393619