Principles of CASE tool integration
Principles of CASE tool integration
A new approach to software tool interoperability
SAC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Tools That Bind: Creating Integrated Environments
IEEE Software
An architectural approach to building systems from COTS software components
CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Controversy Corner: A new research agenda for tool integration
Journal of Systems and Software
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Abstract:Current trend of constructing new systems from collections of pre-existing third-party software and the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products presents serious challenges to existing integration technology. In this paper we present a flexible integration framework which has general applicability for pre-existing third-party and COTS software (often highly interactive, with graphical user interface, and without source code access), supports users to easily change the way software interact with each other (thus supporting system evolution and component reusability), and is easily programmable by the end-users. Specifically we describe Tool Integration Language (TIL) and Tool Integration Server System (TISS) which provide flexible integration mechanisms for our framework and show how they can be used to integrated a set of existing applications and COTS together