Hernals-an interaction object architecture

Abstract

With the current proliferation of the net based infrastructure, electronic commerce is becoming more and more a type of collaborative work. Net persistent objects can be created and used. We provide a proposal for an architecture where participants (partners) are able to create, work with and store objects on the net. They are enabled to define partner specific business rules with respect to a well defined set of interaction object classes. Based on proven techniques like TCP/IP, Java and Prolog, we provide a proposal for a technical infrastructure to store and present interaction objects. The project was divided in two parts: on the one hand the business model ("Grinzing") consisting of a set of interaction object classes, and secondly the technical infrastructure ("Hernals") that enables the partners to use the objects.