The active collections framework

  • Authors:
  • Rajendra K. Raj

  • Affiliations:
  • Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Sharing enterprise data consistently in near-real-time is a common computing problem increasingly faced by large distributed enterprises today. Enterprise data is typically stored in persistent data stores such as relational databases, and enterprise-wide distributed applications continually retrieve, create, modify, or delete this data. The Active Collections Framework (ACF) is proposed as a mechanism to solve this problem. ACF provides uniform application access to both enterprise data and subsequent data changes through the concept of an Active Collection. This paper describes the basic features of ACF, illustrates its usefulness in building enterprise applications, and briefly discusses ACF implementation issues.