Steve Demuth wrote:
>>I couldn't disagree more. I see lots of customers who reuse business
>>components all the time. Not only that but the components they are
reusing
>>were built using CICS COBOL 10 or 20 years ago.
>>
>>Ian,
>
>Could you address this in the context of Jim's original question: that is,
>one which doesn't violate his "No points will be awarded to solutions
>demonstrating reuse within a tight domain?"
I wasn't trying to gain points! However the ERP vendors have shown that it
is possible to automate important areas of a company's operations using
tailorable off-the-shelf components. These vendors now usually provide an
API to access their components.
What is clear is that we have a wide variety of interpretations of what we
mean by re-usable components. I prefer a definition which focusses on
interfaces, deployment and development lifecycle issues and which embraces
the existing. Others seem to favour one which focusses on languages,
runtimes and communications protocols and insist that we don't yet know how
to build them.
Ian McCallion
CICS Business Unit
IBM Hursley
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