Abstract

Today's networked software engineering environment is characterized by a multitude of autonomous, heterogeneous information repositories, a variety of incompatible user interfaces, diverse, unconventional data types, including text, graphics, and possibly video and sound, rapid change, both in structure and content, and multiple ways of viewing relationships among the same information items. Existing information storage mechanisms fail to combine diverse data types/models, complex objects and storage structures, personal views and organizations of shared objects, access to distributed, heterogeneous repositories, and ease of evolution. This paper examines these issues and describes a Distributed Hypertext architecture that provides transparent access to autonomous, heterogeneous software object repositories, resulting in both a powerful organizational tool and a simple yet effective integration mechanism. Keywords: Hypertext, Distributed Systems, Heterogeneous Distributed Object Manage...

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