Alexander Tynsdale-Biscoe: Practical Use of the RM-ODP - The COMBINE Project ABSTRACT The COMBINE Project is a research programme, part funded by the Europea$ Commission, which has the goal of supporting model-driven development of enterprise systems - using Components. This involves development of methods, infrastructures and tools as well as business solutions for modelling, designing, deploying, testing and running components successfully in an enterprise-wide scale. The COMBINE Project has adopted the RM-ODP as an underlying framework, and the OMG's UML Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (UML for EDOC) as the unifying modelling technique. The main work items the COMBINE project are: · Development of methodology and tools that support modelling in all the viewpoints of RM-ODP: - enterprise viewpoint - computational viewpoint - information viewpoint - engineering viewpoint - technology viewpoint. · Development of cohesive component concepts that are independent of any particular technology, e.g. J2EE/EJB, COM or CORBA, that address granularity questions from coarse-grained to fine-grained components, and that apply throughout the development lifecycle, · Development of pilot systems that underpin the value of sound development frameworks (methodologies and tools), · Analysis of Quality Assurance and Testing Techniques that will enable to the development of Conformance Tools and Tests for Component Based methodologies, and · Continuous exploitation and dissemination of results.