Episode 87: Software Components

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Host(s): Michael Markus
In this episode, Michael and Markus talk about software components. We first looked at a couple of attempts at defining what a component is. We then provided our own definition that will be used in the rest of the episode. We then looked at the promises of component-based development: why are components useful?

We then discussed some of the typical metadata components should specify to make them useful. We discussed to some extent typical variations in component models. The next topic was the separation of concerns between the component functionality and functionality provided by the component’s execution environment (aka. container).
We then compared components with other (more or less) related technologies such as OO and SOA.

We concluded the episode with the notion of architecture as language, where you use a formal DSL to describe a system’s architecture. Components are the basic building block for this approach.

Links:

• Java EE
• Dependency Injection
• DCOM
• CORBA Component Model
• The Slides we mentioned in the podcast
• Book: Clemens Szyperski: Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
• Software Components @ Wikipedia
• The Spring Framework
• AUTOSAR – Automotive Open System Architecture
• Service Component Architecture
• Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo)

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