The ability to build systems out of reusable and interchangeable parts has been growing for the past 30 years. We are finally getting there with cloud. Expect big changes in the near future. It was ...

Abstract. Combination of component software technologies and the web technologies has brought dramatic changes in distributed systems. Traditional client-server paradigm has been replaced by ...

Software components are “binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system.”1 In basic terms, software components are pieces of software ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

With documentary evidence tracing its origin to 1968, component-based development concerns constructing systems from pre-built software components in the field of software engineering. Fast forward ...

Component-based software development (CBD) is an emerging discipline that promises to take software engineering into a new era. The articles in this volume deal with COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) ...

Back in the mid-1990s, if you wanted to build useful software, you didn’t necessarily need to be a coding prodigy. You had tools like Visual Basic, an ecosystem of components, and the ability to ...

There's no single software development model to follow, though iterative and incremental approaches are becoming norms for organizations. An iterative development model is a way to create software by ...

Automotive software is becoming more expensive and central to a car’s identity. Infotainment, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), traction control, and even powertrain management are all shaped ...