4.2. The Goals of Component Approaches
Recently there has been renewed interest in the notion of software development through the planned integration of preexisting pieces of software. This is most often called component-based development (CBD), component-based software engineering (CBSE), or simply componentware, and the pieces called components.
There are many ongoing debates and disagreements concerning what exactly are and are not components [3]. Some authors like to emphasize components as conceptually coherent packages of useful behavior. Others concentrate on components as physical, deployable units of software that execute within some well-defined environment [4]. Regardless of these differences, the basic approach of CBD is to build ...
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