Version 0.9.0
as released at the end of CAPE-OPEN project (October 1999)

  General Vision

This chapter contains documents that should be read first to get the standard general information such as general requirements and needs.

  Technical Architecture

This chapter integrates the horizontal technical materials and defines an infrastructure aiming at process simulation based on the CAPE-OPEN standards.

  Business Interfaces

This chapter contains all vertical interface specification documents. These interfaces are domain-specific interfaces for CAPE applications. They define CAPE-OPEN components involved in a CAPE-OPEN process simulation application. These documents are abstract specifications which create and document a conceptual model in an implementation neutral manner.

  Common Interfaces

This chapter encloses horizontal interface specification documents for handling concepts that may be required by any business interface. This is a collection of interfaces that support basic functions and are always independent of business interfaces. These documents are abstract specifications which create and document a common conceptual model in an implementation neutral manner.

  Implementation Specifications

This chapter contains the implementation of the business and common interface specifications for a given distributed computing platform. In order to produce CAPE-OPEN compliant software components, any developer has to use these official interface definitions.