Mapping enterprise events to the CORBA notification service

To satisfy the need for a wide range of enterprise modelling choices, it is necessary to have a rich set of process based and role based modelling concepts. It is also necessary to have a sound and expressive business event model that includes a flexible way of associating business events with business processes and roles. However, the ability to construct detailed and expressive enterprise models is not useful in a business context without some means of realising the model in technology. The paper introduces the basic modelling concepts from the DSTC´s UML Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing before describing in detail the profile´s business event model. The paper then describes how this event model can be mapped in a straightforward manner to implementations using the OMG´s CORBA Notification Service. This mapping can then be used as the basis for building automated tools that support generating implementations of systems from high level enterprise models