Engineering information integration using object-oriented mediator technology

  • Authors:

  • Mattias Nyström;Tore Risch

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden;Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The mechanical product development process uses many different software systems to virtually simulate the behaviour of a design. The present work deals with flexible and efficient integration using object-oriented mediator technology that provides transparent access to distributed engineering systems. The use of mediator technology is investigated for semi-automatically integrating engineering information resident in computer aided design systems with a Common Object Request Broker Architecture based application programming interface. The purpose is to provide engineering analysis applications access to computer aided design system information and computational methods through a declarative query language. We conclude that the use of a declarative query language for developing engineering applications shows great potential in terms of flexibility, development productivity, performance, and ease of use, compared with using a procedural programming language. The work also shows new use of mediator technology, declarative queries, and active rules within engineering information integration that traditionally is accomplished using procedural programming.