By: Peter F. Linington, Zoran Milosevic, Akira Tanaka, Antonio Vallecillo

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The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is an international standard that provides a solid basis for describing and building widely distributed systems and applications in a systematic way. It stresses the need to build these systems with evolution in mind by identifying the concerns of major stakeholders and then expressing the design as a series of linked viewpoints.

Although RM-ODP has been a standard for more than ten years, many practitioners are still unaware of it. Building Enterprise Systems with ODP: An Introduction to Open Distributed Processing offers a gentle pathway to the essential ideas that constitute ODP and shows how these ideas can be applied when designing and building challenging systems. It provides an accessible introduction to the design principles for software engineers and enterprise architects. The book also explains the benefits of using viewpoints to produce simpler and more flexible designs and how ODP can be applied to service engineering, open enterprise, and cloud computing.

The authors include guidelines for using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation and for structuring and writing system specifications. They elucidate how this fits into the model-driven engineering tool chain via approaches, such as Model-Driven Architecture^® (MDA). They also demonstrate the power of RM-ODP for the design and organization of complex distributed IT systems in e-government, e-health, and energy and transportation industries.

All concepts and ideas in the book are illustrated through a single running example that describes the IT support needed by a medium-sized company as it grows and develops. Complete UML models and more are available at http://theodpbook.lcc.uma.es/

List of Figures	p. ix
About the Authors	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xxi
The Framework	p. 1
What Is ODP About?	p. 5
The ODP Reference Model	p. 8
Viewpoints	p. 10
Fundamental Concepts	p. 16
Useful Building Blocks	p. 21
Service Orientation	p. 22
Human Computer Interaction	p. 23
The Right Tools for the Job	p. 24
The Viewpoints	p. 29
Enterprise Viewpoint	p. 33
Designing with Communities	p. 34
Identifying Roles	p. 36
Organizational Structure	p. 37
Roles and Role Filling	p. 39
More than One Community	p. 41
Community Behaviour	p. 44
Accountability and Related Concepts	p. 49
Quality of Service and Other Constraints	p. 50
Identifying the System's User Interfaces	p. 51
Writing Enterprise Specifications	p. 52
Information Viewpoint	p. 55
The Primacy of Information	p. 56
The Elements of the Information Language	p. 57
Writing Information Specifications	p. 59
Structure of the Information Specification	p. 64
Relationship with Other Viewpoints	p. 65
Computational Viewpoint	p. 67
Designing with Computational Objects	p. 68
Computational Objects	p. 69
Bindings	p. 71
Interactions between Computational Objects	p. 73
Environment Contracts and Transparencies	p. 75
Writing Computational Specifications	p. 76
Relationship with Other Viewpoints	p. 86
Engineering Viewpoint	p. 89
What Is the Engineering Viewpoint For?	p. 90
Objects and Distribution	p. 91
Node Architecture	p. 93
Channel Architecture	p. 96
Common Functions and Processes	p. 98
Writing Engineering Viewpoint Specifications	p. 101
Incorporating Current Technologies	p. 102
Relationship with Other Viewpoints	p. 102
Technology Viewpoint	p. 105
Linking to the Real World	p. 106
The Elements of the Technology Language	p. 107
Relationship with Other Viewpoints	p. 112
Correspondences - Joining It All Up	p. 113
The Need for Correspondences	p. 114
Different Kinds of Correspondence	p. 115
Correspondences Required by the ODP Architecture	p. 116
Anatomy of a Correspondence Specification	p. 118
Taking a Formal View	p. 119
Examples of Correspondences	p. 122
Tool Support for Specifying Correspondences	p. 122
Using ODP	p. 125
Conformance - Does It Do the Right Thing?	p. 129
Compliance and Conformance	p. 130
A Conformance Community	p. 131
Types of Reference Point	p. 133
Conformance to Viewpoint Specifications	p. 135
Claiming Compliance or Conformance	p. 137
Transparencies - Hiding Common Problems	p. 139
What Is a Transparency?	p. 140
Types of Transparency	p. 142
Transparencies and Viewpoints	p. 144
Policies - Tracking Changing Requirements	p. 147
Why Do We Need Policies?	p. 148
What Is a Policy?	p. 149
Implementing Policy	p. 152
Federation - Talking to Strangers	p. 155
How Does Interoperation Work?	p. 157
Interpreting and Sharing Information	p. 159
The Basis of Interoperation	p. 160
Engineering the Federation	p. 162
Federating Type Systems	p. 164
Federating Identity	p. 164
Legacy Systems	p. 165
Interoperability or Integration?	p. 165
Using Existing Products	p. 167
What Does This Product Do for Me?	p. 168
Supplier and User Views	p. 169
Competing Sets of Viewpoints	p. 172
System Evolution - Moving the Goalposts	p. 175
Coping with Change	p. 176
The Importance of Tool Support	p. 176
Making Changes to Viewpoints	p. 177
Avoiding Synchronized Transitions	p. 178
Evolution of the Enterprise	p. 180
Version Control	p. 181
Moving On	p. 183
Modelling Styles	p. 187
The Importance of Formal Models	p. 188
What Is a System?	p. 189
Modelling Open or Closed Worlds?	p. 190
Capturing Requirements	p. 192
Expressing Obligations	p. 193
Expressing Semantics	p. 194
Sharp Tools	p. 195
What Should a Tool Do?	p. 196
Model Editors and Analysis Tools	p. 197
Model-Driven Approaches	p. 198
Model Transformations	p. 200
Languages for Transformations	p. 201
Viewpoints and Transformations	p. 202
More Integration	p. 205
A Broader View	p. 207
Where to Look Next	p. 207
Integration of Other Standards	p. 208
Uses of ODP	p. 208
Tools	p. 211
Comparing Enterprise Architectures	p. 212
Coda	p. 215
Appendices	p. 217
The PhoneMob Specifications	p. 221
Enterprise Viewpoint Specifications	p. 222
Information Viewpoint Specifications	p. 226
Computational Viewpoint Specifications	p. 227
Engineering Viewpoint Specifications	p. 228
Technology Viewpoint Specifications	p. 230
Correspondences	p. 231
Selected Exercises	p. 235
Selected Scenarios	p. 235
Some Additional Questions	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 247
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ISBN: 9781439866252
ISBN-10: 1439866252
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Innovations in Software Engineering and Software Development Series
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 284
Published: 1st September 2011
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.6  x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.518