Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems

This is a book about component-based software engineering (CBSE). CBSE<br>is the emerging discipline of the development of software components and the<br>development of systems incorporating such components. Component-based<br>systems are built by assembling components developed independently of the<br>systems. To assemble components, a proprietary code that connects the components<br>is usually needed. This code is often referred to as “glue code.” In an<br>ideal world of components the assembly process would be smooth and simple.<br>The effort required to obtain the glue code would be practically negligible; a<br>system incorporating components would know everything about them—their<br>operational interfaces and their nonfunctional properties and the components<br>would be exactly what the system needs; in short, components could be<br>assembled as easily as Lego blocks.