Reusing a distributed object domain framework

Presents the development of a distributed object framework and its application in the factory automation domain. The framework was developed as a generalization of a machine monitoring system. The method used to create the framework was object-oriented domain engineering (OODE). The first part of the paper describes OODE and its relationships with object-oriented analysis and design (OOA&D) methods and domain engineering concepts. The goal of OODE is to produce a generic object-oriented model which spans a domain and, from this model, a domain framework for the rapid assembly of applications. The second part of the paper presents case studies of the reuse of the framework on two different systems in the machine monitoring domain, one similar to the original framework, the other seemingly less so. The paper discusses some findings from these two efforts.