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Emerging component software technologies — a strategic comparison

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Component software addresses the fundamental requirement that software systems need to be composed from components. Potentially, each component can evolve on its own as a product. Composition may be static, much in the sense of traditional product assembly, but could just as well be dynamic. Dynamic assembly is even required in the increasingly important case of content-oriented solutions. In all cases the effectiveness of a component approach will rest on the degree of standardization achieved in a specific domain. This article provides a strategic comparison of the two major competing component software standards: COM and CORBA/JavaBeans.

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  1. School of Computing Science, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Q4001, Australia

    Clemens Szyperski

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This article is partially based on the author's book Component Software [12].

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Szyperski, C. Emerging component software technologies — a strategic comparison. Software - Concepts & Tools 19, 2–10 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003780050002

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