Abstract:Component-based software development aims at constructing new systems from reusable components. Some studies have concluded that reuse increases both quality and productivity of software developments. Amongst the problems involved in the application of reuse techniques, two of them are treated in this work: (i) the difficulty of locating and retrieving components stored in heterogeneous repositories spread over the Internet; and (ii) the problem of publishing new components, in order to help both their integra… Show more
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