Setting the Scene:

42 Objects Business Ontology Based Software Development

An overview of 42 Objects' approach to Business Ontology Based Software Development that aims to secure a measure of agreement on:

• What philosophical ontology is,
• Whether, and how, ontology can assist in object oriented software development,
• What philosophical ontology can add to the debate on the mapping between objects in the real world and system objects,
• What the key obstacles to the deployment of ontology are