COCO: Composition Model and Composition Model Implementation

Component-based software engineering attempts to address the ever increasing demand for new software applications by enabling a compositional approach to software construction in which applications are built from pre-fabricated components, rather than developed from scratch. However, the success of component-based development has been impeded by interoperability concerns that often come into play when composing two or more independently developed components. These concerns encompass five incompatibility dimensions: component model, semantic, syntactic, design and platform. In this paper we now propose a CoCo composition model that elevates compositions to first class citizenship status and defines the standard for describing the composition of components transparently to any underlying incompatibilities between the collaborating components; and a CoCo composition model implementation that provides the required support to describe and subsequently execute the composition to produce ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICEIS
• Authors: Naiyana Tansalarak, Kajal T. Claypool
• Keywords: CoCo Composition Model, Composition Model, Composition Model Implementation, ICEIS 2005, Information Systems