ARTEMIS-2 - AN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT EXPERIMENT WITH THE HELIOS ENVIRONMENT

A medical application is a highly complex system that embraces many da ta types and a very large number of data processing functions and meth ods. The development of integrated software engineering environments h as deeply changed the conception of applications and the profile of th e application developers. In this paper, we address the problem of the development process of a specific multimedia application, called ARTE MIS, within the distributed HELIOS environment. The application is int ended to manage information about hypertensive patients, in particular retrieval and display of administrative, clinical and biological data and display and analysis of digital angiography images and medical re ports. The objective is to show how the developer can use, customize a nd organize the services HELIOS provides. A particular focus is set on reuse strategies and integration during the development process. A sc enario has been realized and illustrates the current state of the appl ication. The discussion focuses on the advantages of such distributed environments in medical application development.