Objectivity Inc, Menlo Park, California, is going with Hewlett-Packard Co’s SoftBench framework as its solution for integrating multiple applications into a single environment. The agreement follows Objectivity’s shipment a year ago of the first object database development environment to integrate Hewlett-Packard’s C++ SoftBench tools. Objectivity is the first company to license Hewlett-Packard’s generic framework for developing object-oriented applications. It has not been used outside of software enngineering before. Last summer Hewlett-Packard decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond software engineering and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities, getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server, which can co-ordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment.
