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The software information base: A server for reuse

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We present an experimental software repository system that provides organization, storage, management, and access facilities for reusable software components. The system, intended as part of an applications development environment, supports the representation of information about requirements, designs and implementations of software, and offers facilities for visual presentation of the soft-ware objects. This article details the features and architecture of the repository system, the technical challenges and the choices made for the system development along with a usage scenario that illustrates its functionality. The system has been developed and evaluated within the context of the ITHACA project, a technology integration/software engineering project sponsored by the European Communities through the ESPRIT program, aimed at developing an integrated reuse-centered application development and support environment based on object-oriented techniques.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Crete, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos Sc.D. (Associate Professor) & Yannis Vassiliou Ph.D. (Professor)

  2. Lehrstuhl Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Ahronstr. 55, W-51000, Aachen, Germany

    Matthias Jarke Dr.rer.pol. (Professor)

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto 6, King's College Road, M5S 1A4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    John Mylopoulos Ph.D. (Professor)

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Constantopoulos, P., Jarke, M., Mylopoulos, J. et al. The software information base: A server for reuse. VLDB Journal 4, 1–43 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232471

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