Using SOM for tool integration

IBM's System Object Model (SOM) is an object-oriented programming interface for building binary class libraries. When changes are made to a SOM class, client programs that use the SOM class will not need to be recompiled. The SOM Toolkit provides a set of frameworks for building object-oriented applications. These include Distributed SOM, the Persistence Framework, the Replication Framework, and the Emitter Framework. In this paper, we discuss our experience using SOM to handle the control aspects of tool integration.