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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
23 Nov 2002-
TL;DR: Anyone responsible for developing software strategy, evaluating new technologies, buying or building software will find Clemens Szyperski's objective and market-aware perspective of this new area invaluable.
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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming explains the technical foundations of this evolving technology and its importance in the software market place. It provides in-depth discussion of both the technical and the business issues to be considered, then moves on to suggest approaches for implementing component-oriented software production and the organizational requirements for success. The author draws on his own experience to offer tried-and-tested solutions to common problems and novel approaches to potential pitfalls. Anyone responsible for developing software strategy, evaluating new technologies, buying or building software will find Clemens Szyperski's objective and market-aware perspective of this new area invaluable.
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...To study the post-mortem spatial and temporal aspect of performance data, event 300 COMPUTING APPLICATIONS tracing, that is, the activity of capturing an event or an action that takes place in the program, is more appropriate....
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...Component technology extends the benefits of scripting systems and object-oriented design to support reuse and interoperability of component software, transparent of language and location (Szyperski 1997)....
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TL;DR: The authors believe that the answer lies in the use and reuse of software components that work within an explicit software architecture, and the Koala model, a component-oriented approach, is their way of handling the diversity of software in consumer electronics.
Abstract: Most consumer electronics today contain embedded software. In the early days, developing CE software presented relatively minor challenges, but in the past several years three significant problems have arisen: size and complexity of the software in individual products; the increasing diversity of products and their software; and the need for decreased development time. The question of handling diversity and complexity in embedded software at an increasing production speed becomes an urgent one. The authors present their belief that the answer lies not in hiring more software engineers. They are not readily available, and even if they were, experience shows that larger projects induce larger lead times and often result in greater complexity. Instead, they believe that the answer lies in the use and reuse of software components that work within an explicit software architecture. The Koala model, a component-oriented approach detailed in this article, is their way of handling the diversity of software in consumer electronics. Used for embedded software in TV sets, it allows late binding of reusable components with no additional overhead.
795 citations
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TL;DR: This chapter reviews the history of software architecture, the reasons that led to the diffusion of objects and services first, and microservices later, and presents the current state-of-the-art in the field.
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...Attention to separation of concerns has recently led to the emergence of the so-called Component-based software engineering (CBSE) [66], which has given better control over design, implementation and evolution of software systems....
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