COTS Components and DB Interoperability

Sharing e-Health Information through Ontological Layering

“…SA from Figure 1 is a layered model, based on software architectural styles principles [9,10] and exploited in other models, which use architectural layering to address interoperability in software systems [11,12]. A set of repositories {DB 1 … DB n } at the Persistence Layer are heterogeneous sources of data /information, generated by various parties, users and applications.…”

Design patterns for automation of marketing authorisations in pharmaceutical industry

“…A full data-model that supports the example has been generated in ORACLE 8i [19]. We chose the J2EE platform for our implementation, because of our positive experiences of implementing software architecture for interoperable databases as an EJB application [12].…”

“…The choice of the J2EE technology has influenced our software design decisions and design patterns. Any discussion on the suitability of EJB [http://java.sun.com] and its impact to our design decisions, is outside the scope of this paper, but is available in our other publications [12,13,14].…”