Service- and Component-based Development: Using Select Perspective™ and UML
by Hedley Apperly, Ralph Hofman, Steve Latchem, Barry Maybank, Barry McGibbon, David Piper, Chris Simons
Chapter 4. Manage
Reusing components and services has the potential to solve many of the key issues of contemporary software development: faster time-to-market, reduced development and maintenance costs, faster response to change, and improved quality. An ad hoc approach to reuse usually exists within individual projects by developers sharing components, from both a black-box and white-box point of view. White-box reuse is quite common among the developer community, where an identified component piece of code 'almost' serves the purpose of a project need and is subsequently customized. However, moving from an ad hoc to a managed approach to reuse is not simply a matter of buying a component management tool (see Chapter 11), and publishing a ...
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