Reusable software components

Abstract

There has been a continued interest in software reuse in the software engineering community, as evidenced by web services and Microsoft .NET, and by the continued work in product-line engineering. New users to software reuse should be made aware of the work that has been done by the Ada community and of the particular appropriateness of Ada for reuse. We therefore review in this column the issues involved in reuse with the Ada programming language. For those who are interested in investigating these topics in depth, we enclose a brief list of helpful sources. We will post this column on our web site, and gladly append any additional references that our readers may supply.