BRIDGING TRADITIONAL AND OBJECT TECHNOLOGIES - CREATING TRANSITIONAL APPLICATIONS

Object technology is a well-known advance for developing software that is receiving a great deal of attention. Unfortunately, the educationa l investment required and the additional complexity introduced by most fools that support this technology have dampened its rate of adoption by many enterprise developers. To bridge this skills and technology g ap, development fool strategies are presented that encourage a more ev olutionary approach, easing the transition. Rather than requiring tota lly new skills and tools, these strategies fake advantage of the stren gths and familiarity of traditional facilities-they hide much of the r aw technological complexities and yet exploit the strengths of object technology by supporting the creation of transitional applications. Th e strategies described fall into two categories: bridging between the traditional and object worlds, and masking the complexities of object technology by exploiting higher-level rapid application development te chniques.