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Based on the requirements arising from process-centered organizations and because of the lack of process modeling mechanisms in traditional software development methods, this paper presents a Business Process-centered Software Analysis method (BPSA), which supports the modeling of business process control logic. As a method, BPSA is composed of two main parts: a model and the steps of how to model the requirements using this model. The model includes the functional, informational and organizational aspects as well as the behavioral aspect that provides the mechanism for modeling the process control logic. The event mechanism is employed in this method as a main technique for modeling the control aspect of business processes. This method is based on technologies such as Structured Analysis, OOA & OOD, Workflow, XML, and has been used in the development of several medium and large information systems, proving to be both useful and effective.

Recently, the demand in tool support (performance analyzers, debuggers etc.) for efficient Java programming considerably increases. A universal, open interface between tools and a monitoring system, On-line Monitoring Interface Specification (OMIS), and the OMIS compliant monitoring system (OCM) enable to specify such a Java oriented monitoring infrastructure which allows for an extensible range of functionality intended for supporting various kinds of tools. The paper presents an approach to building a monitoring system which underlies this infrastructure, i.e. the issues of architecture, request processing, event handling, and processing RMI calls.