Distributed databases have invested considerable effort and system resources in the development and adoption of dynamic distributed databases services. In order to sustain the quality of their services, Business process management need to solve the problem of efficient and secure electronic exchange and processing of system database. A major difficulty in this distributed deployment is the fact that these interconnected systems are heterogeneous and they may operate in multiple organizational domains. This paper demonstrates how the ISO/RM-ODP standard offers a general framework to design and develop an open distributed system attuned to dynamic distributed databases environments.
The purpose of the RM-ODP is to define such a framework. The Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) provides a framework within which support of distribution, inter-working and portability can be integrated. It defines: an object model, architectural concepts and architecture for the development of ODP systems in terms of five viewpoints. However, RM-ODP is a meta-norm, and several ODP standards have to be defined. In this paper, we report on the definition and address of the syntax and semantics for a fragment of ODP object concepts defined in the RM-ODP foundations part and in the information language. These concepts are suitable for describing and constraining dynamic distributed databases information specifications.