On the Effective Use of Software Standards in Systems Integration

e d The emphasis on "open systems" in the past few years has led to th evelopment of interface standards in almost all areas of computing: operating . W systems, data communications, graphics, programming languages, and others hile intelligent use of standards can solve many integration problems, the s architecture of applications can significantly affect the degree of success in ystems integration. This paper explains an approach to application developi ment that helps use software standards to greatest advantage in systems ntegration. 1. Introduction Software standards for programming languages have existed for many years. Database e n and graphics standards are more recent, and document processing language standards ar ewer still. The POSIX operating system interface standard 1003.1 [IEEE1988] represents the e n first standardization of operating system services. Additional system service standards ar earing completion. Within the next two years, it will be possible to put togethe..