Object-oriented paradigm: standards

Several quality criteria for software products have been identified in the literature: modularity, i. e. the segmentation of a complex system into man ageable units, a size that is appropriate for the tasks to be fulfilled, in teroperability, i.e. the ability to interconnect different software systems , etc. In order to create software that meets these demands, the software d evelopment process needs to be more efficient and easier to manage than it is today. The object-oriented approach seems to be more suitable for the de velopment of today's software than the traditional ways of software develop ment, such as functional, procedural or logical programming. In this paper we discuss the state-of-the-art standards for object-oriented modeling lang uages, development processes, patterns and components, middleware, database s and programming languages.