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The BOOST project aims to support the development of telecommuncations services by establishing effective ways of creating object-oriented Service Creation Environments (SCEs). A major part of the project has entailed the constructing SCEs by integrating existing software tools. This paper evaluates different approaches t o tool integration, covering both antegration by encapsulation within an existing environment, and direct tool-to-tool integration. The use of Tcl, a language to increase tool programmability, is discussed, and examples illustrating its application in BOOST are provided. Finally, a general mechanism for direct taol-to-tool integration, and an approach towards fully open, active environments and services are presented.