The Common Business Object Framework aims at coming up with a set of system-level abstractions and interoperability standards to simplify and standardize business systems development. The author asserts that Boca provides a solution to the challenge of segregating core business information from the technological specifics of its home system while allowing different applications to exchange data across the enterprise.
Citation:
Tom Digre, "Business Object Component Architecture," IEEE Software, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 60-69, Sep./Oct. 1998, doi:10.1109/52.714818