Object Model Driven Code Generation for the Enterprise

Joint Task Force–Advanced Technical Demonstration (JTF–ATD) was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project in the field of distributed, collaborative computing. In a typical JTF command hierarchy, the critical people, relevant data, and their supporting computers are geographically distributed across a wide-area network. This causes many problems that would not exist if they were all in the same location. The goal of JTF–ATD was to make it easier for people to work together. A system that facilitated the sharing of data and ideas without compromising security, timeliness, flexibility, availability, or other desirable qualities was needed. After experimentation with numerous architectures and implementations, the JTF–ATD concluded that an enterprise solution to data dissemination and access was needed. It also became apparent that the different types of data needed to support JTF missions were as ubiquitous as the missions themselves. Therefore, planning systems would need the ability to associate previously unknown data elements to their plan composition. A distributed, object-oriented design held the most promise to meet these goals.