Dimensions of Component - Based Development

As the properties of components have gradually become clearer, attention has started to turn to the architectural issues which govern their interaction and composition. In this paper the authors identify some of the major architectural questions affecting component-based software development and describe the predominant architectural dimensions. Of these, the most interesting is the "architecture hierarchy" which they believe is needed to address the "interface vicissitude" problem that arises whenever interaction refinement is explicitly documented within a component-based system. The authors present a solution to this problem based on the concept of stratified architectures and object metamorphosis Finally, they describe how these concepts may assist in increasing the tailorability of component-based frameworks. Author(s) : Colin Atkinson, Thomas Kühne and Christian Bunse

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