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Component-orientation is an emerging paradigm that promises components that are usable as prefabricated black-boxes. But components have the problem that they should be changeable and flexibly adaptable to a huge number of different application contexts and to changing requirements. We will argue, that sole parameterization — as the key variation technique of components — is not suitable to cope with all required change scenarios. A proper integration with multiple other paradigms, such as object-orientation, the usage of a scripting language as a flexible component glue, and the exploitation of high-level interception techniques can make components be easier (ex)-changeable and adaptable. These techniques can be applied without interfering with the component’s internals.
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Goedicke, M., Neumann, G., Zdun, U. (2001). Design and Implementation Constructs for the Development of Flexible, Component-Oriented Software Architectures. In: Butler, G., Jarzabek, S. (eds) Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering. GCSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44815-2_9
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