SISIP - A Systems Integration Platform based on Distributed Persistent Objects

Integrated environments in general may support the four integration areas: data-integration, control-integration, presentation-integration and process-integration. The SISIP architecture takes a unified object-oriented approach to these four integration areas. The underlying infrastructure is based on distributed persistent objects, realized by a combination of objectoriented database technology and distributed object technology. The SISIP object model, SIOM, provides a unified object model for all four integration dimensions. The object model combines a structural object model based on EXPRESS and the ODMG object model, with a behavioral object model based on the OMG Interface Definition Language. Modeling for SISIP-based systems is supported through the object-oriented SIMOD methodology, which is based on the OOram role modeling methodology. The SIDE development environment is itself SISIP compliant. The SISIP approach is being specialized for various domains, in particular GEOSIP for Geoscience applications, GISSIP for Geographical Information Systems, CIMSIP for Computer Integrated Manufacturing and BISSIP for Business Information Systems.