16.1 Components and component models
The software reuse community generally agrees that a component is an independent software unit that can be composed with other components to create a software system. Beyond that, however, people have proposed varying definitions of a software component. Councill and Heineman (Councill and Heineman 2001) define a component as:
A software element that conforms to a standard component model and can be independently deployed and composed without modification according to a composition standard.†
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