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
Component factories
Component factories are typically suites of tools that encompass requirements management, visual modeling, component management, quality assurance, application assembly and deployment. They differ from general modeling tools and integrated development environments (IDEs) in their level of abstraction. Rather than focusing purely on objects and classes, component factories must also consider applications architectures, based on component, interfaces and services. This abstraction maps to contemporary concepts, such as the OMGs MDA, which distinguishes between three separate views: first, the 'computation-independent business model', which documents the business and its workflows; second, the 'platform-independent component ...
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