Toward Software Plug-and-Play

The growing size and complexity of systems has revealed many shortcomings of existing software engineering practices, for example, lack of scalability. This in turn raised interest in component-based and architecture-driven software development. In all likelihood, component-based software will form the foundation on which future systems will be built. The shift toward developing systems from components has been more evolutionary than revolutionary. It has its roots in accepted architectural principles such as layering, modularization, and information hiding. But it also introduces its own principles and concepts and presents new challenges. This paper discusses research ideas and technologies that will facilitate the transition toward component-based software development by leveraging object-oriented middleware technologies such as CORBA and OLE. We also present an innovative component-based development environment to illustrate the ideas we introduce. Keywords Software architectures,...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: SSR
• Authors: François Bronsard, Douglas Bryan, Wojtek Kozaczynski, Edy S. Liongosari, Jim Q. Ning, Ásgeir Ólafsson, John W. Wetterstrand
• Keywords: Component-based, Component-based Software, Software Development, SSR 1997