The use of mediation and ontology technologies for software component information retrieval

Component Based Development aims at constructing software through the inter-relationship between pre-existing components. However, these components should be bound to a specific application domain in order to be effectively reused. Reusable domain components and their related documentation are usually stored in a great variety of data sources. Thus, a possible solution for accessing this information is to use a software layer that integrates different component information sources. We present a component information integration data layer, based on mediators. Through mediators, domain ontology acts as a technique/formalism for specifying ontological commitments or agreements between component users and providers, enabling more accurate software component information search. Keywords Component Repositories, Domain Engineering, Software Classification and Identification, Component Based Engineering.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: SSR
• Authors: Regina M. M. Braga, Marta Mattoso, Cláudia Maria Lima Werner
• Keywords: Component Based Development, Component Information, Component Information Sources, SSR 2001