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Specification of Business Components

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Abstract

Component-based software development is a potential reuse paradigm for the future. While the required technologies for a component-style system development are widely available, for instance Sun’s Enterprise Java Beans, a problem inhibits the breakthrough of the component paradigm in business application domains: compared to traditional engineering disciplines there is a lack of standardized methods to describe business components. Such a description has to address several aspects: What services are offered and requested by a business component? How can these services be used? Are there any interdependencies between the services of a set of business components? What quality characteristics do the offered services fulfill? And so on. In this paper, we present a holistic approach to specify a business component. This approach consists of seven specification levels which address both technical and business aspects. Furthermore, we show the application of this method by specifying a simple business component that deals with German bank codes.

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Chair of Information Systems & Management, Jakob Welder-Weg 9, D-55099, Mainz, Germany

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Postbox 217, 7500, AE Enschede, The Netherlands

    Mehmet Aksit

  2. Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, AlexanderstraĂźe 10, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Mira Mezini

  3. Institute for Computer Science, University of Essen, SchĂĽtzenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Fettke, P., Loos, P. (2003). Specification of Business Components. In: Aksit, M., Mezini, M., Unland, R. (eds) Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World. NODe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2591. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36557-5_7

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