ARCHITECTURE OF THE SAN-FRANCISCO FRAMEWORKS

The San Francisco(TM) project is an IBM initiative, with over 130 inde pendent software vendors, to provide business process components that can form the basis of rapidly developed distributed solutions for miss ion-critical business applications. This paper describes the original objectives of the San Francisco project and discusses the methodology, skills, and architecture that were used to achieve those objectives. The paper includes discussion of the importance of design patterns, ex tension points, and a well-defined programming model used in the San F rancisco components. Most topics are touched on briefly to give an ove rview; some knowledge of object-oriented development techniques is ass umed.