JAVA AND THE IBM SAN-FRANCISCO PROJECT

The San Francisco(TM) project establishes a new paradigm for building business applications. The product, targeted for independent software vendors (ISVs), provides a distributed object infrastructure (foundati on), common business objects (CBOs), and business process components ( BPCs). Together, they provide a platform-independent business applicat ion foundation, ready for extension by ISVs to produce end-customer, b usiness-critical applications. The San Francisco project is written al most entirely in Java(TM) and to our knowledge is currently the larges t Java development effort in the world. This paper provides an overvie w of the San Francisco project, with emphasis on the Java consideratio ns of the product's development, the lessons learned, and our recommen dations for future Java language maturity.