At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that m...
Component-based software development heavily relies on the ability of reusing components from a library with as little effort as possible. Among others, valuable features for reus...
– To build, manage and apply reusable components easily and efficiently are an ideal of software developers. Service-oriented architectures provide more hopes for reusable compon...
Component-based development is the emerging paradigm in software production, though several challenges still slow down its full taking up. In particular, the "component trust...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...