A formalized abstract component object model - Z-COM

Abstract

The importance of having a sound basis for engineers to reason about architectural standards should not be underestimated. A component standard, or integration architecture, is a set of design rules that is meant to ensure that such components can be integrated in defined ways without undue effort. This paper presents a formalized abstract component object model, Z-COM, based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), and describes the design and abstract implementation of Object-Bus, which is the kernel of Z-COM.