The promise of distributed business components

This paper discusses the advantages of replacing hand-crafted software with reusable components as a solution to the software crisis. Object-oriented programming provides insights on how to build components. Because components must have distributed implementations and well-defined interfaces, both the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) and the Object Management Group (OMG) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) models are described as distributed object architectures to support reusable components. A transaction processing monitor is also necessary for accessing business logic and the information contained in relational databases. Components are composed of object-oriented frameworks based on models of the problem domain or business.