Abstract
We are seeing an increasing trend towards component-based development in today’s software systems. The use of component technology is perceived as being the next “silver bullet” that will bring the benefits that other trends have failed to deliver — resulting in systems that are delivered within budget, with high quality and on time.
However, while a number of component technologies are available in the market today (such as COM, Enterprise Java Beans and, soon, CORBA Components), their use does not necessarily deliver the promised benefits. Large-scale enterprise systems are concerned with issues of distribution , scalability, performance, ease of development, standards, legacy integration etc. that such technologies only partially address.
This chapter discusses a particular architectural approach to software engineering based on the concept of a business component that augments today's technologies. This concept is visible during all stages of the software development lifecycle and takes the concerns of large-scale enterprise systems into account.
This chapter describes the business component concept, together with a discussion of concerns pertaining to the business component run-time environment, and the business component development process.
Some of the figures in this chapter have been adapted from [7]. Copyright © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. Reprinted by Permission.
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Eeles, P. (2000). Business Component Development. In: Barroca, L., Hall, J., Hall, P. (eds) Software Architectures. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0367-7_3
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