Designing Components Versus Objects: A Transformational Approach

A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines component-based programming and how it expands the design space in the context of an event-based component architecture. We present a conceptual model for addressing new design issues these components afford, and we identify fundamental design decisions in this model that are not a concern in conventional object-oriented design. We use JavaBeans-based examples to illustrate concretely how expertise in component-based design, as embodied in a component taxonomy and implementation space, impacts both design and the process of design. The results are not exclusive to JavaBeans—they can apply to any comparable component architecture. Keywords Component-based software engineering, componentbased design, classification, taxonomy, JavaBeans.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: David H. Lorenz, John M. Vlissides
• Keywords: Component-based Design, Design, ICSE 2001, Object-oriented Design, Software Engineering