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Thomas J. Mowbray, PhD and Ron Zahavi work for the MITRE Corporation where they are actively engaged in the research and development of object-based systems. Dr. Mowbray is the Chairman of the OMG Common Facilities Task Force, and "Architectures" columnist for Object magazine. Ron Zahavi is the leader of the Object Management Technologies Group in the MITRE Open Systems Center.

The Object Management Group is a nonprofit international corporation dedicated to establishing industry guidelines and object management specification to provide a common framework for distributed application development. Founded in 1989, the OMG membership includes over 350 information system vendors, software developers, and users. OMG's first specification, The Common Object Request Broker, is widely regarded as the industry standard for distributed application development.

THE PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS INTEGRATION.

Standards Strategy.

An Introduction to CORBA.

Software Architecture Design.

Security.

THE PRACTICE OF SYSTEMS INTEGRATION.

Framework Examples.

In-Depth Example: The DISCUS Framework.

Object Wrapper Techniques.

Systems Integration Guidance.

Acronyms.

Appendix.

Bibliography.

Index.