July 2001
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 51m
English
The UP is developed with object technology (OT) projects in mind, and the adoption of OT has often been promoted in order to achieve software reuse. Significant reuse is a laudable goal, but difficult. It is a function of much more than adopting OT and writing classes; OT is but one enabling technology in a suite of technical, organizational, and social changes that have to occur to see meaningful reuse. Certainly, libraries of classes for technical services, such as the Java technology libraries, provide a great example of reuse, but I am referring to the difficulty of reuse of code created within an organization, not core libraries.
In a survey of organizations that had adopted OT, they were asked the ...
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