Tool-independent system for application building in an object oriented development environment with data stored in repository in OMG compliant UML representation

A computer system having a repository program being executed therein and a framework that includes an OMG compliant UML representation of artifacts needed for integrating software development tools into said system, and for building, deploying and maintaining applications in a heterogeneous development framework, said framework comprising:

• a. a legacy integration module for discovering and transforming pre-existing applications into object models;
• b. an enterprise modeling module for creating and saving business models derived from a business modeling tool;
• c. a domain modeling module for creating object models from said business models;
• d. a business modeling module for writing the methods for business processes based on said business model in said domain modeling module;
• e. a component building and wrapping module for wrapping said business models into components and containing a multiplicity of component interfaces useful in building applications;
• f. an application and assembly module disposed in said repository for assembling built components into an application;
• and,
• g. an application deployment module disposed in said repository for deploying new applications.