From a hyperdocument-centric to an object-oriented approach for the Cave Project

This paper briefly describes the new results of the Cave Project. Cave Project is a research initiative aiming to make possible a user-transparent distribution of CAD resources over the World Wide Web. Early results on developing a web based interface for integrated circuits design tools were presented in the late 1990s. By the year 2000, the research focus has been on evolving the tool-tool integration architecture to provide better design flow modeling using object-oriented design representation.