Includes bibliographical references and index.

Definition of a software component and its elements / Bill Councill, George T. Heineman -- The component industry metaphor / Hedley Apperly -- Component models and component services: concepts and principles / Rainer Weinreich, Johannes Sametinger -- An example specification for implementing a temperature regulator software component / Janet Flynt, Jason Mauldin -- The business case for components / John Williams -- COTS myths and other lessons learned in component-based software development / Will Tracz -- Planning team roles for CBD / Paul Allen, Stuart Frost -- Common high-risk mistakes / Wojtek Kozaczynski -- CBSE success factors: integrating architecture, process, and organization / Martin L. Griss -- Practices of software engineering / George T. Heineman -- From subroutines to subsystems: component-based software development / Paul C. Clements -- Status of CBSE in Europe / Barry McGibbon -- CBSE in Japan and Asia / Mikio Aoyama -- Software components and the UML / Kelli Houston, Davyd Norris -- Component infrastructures: placing software components in context / Steve Latchem -- Business components / James Carey, Brent Carlson -- Components and connectors: catalysis techniques for designing component infrastructures / Alan Cameron Wills -- An OPEN process for component-based development / Brian Henderson-Sellers -- Designing models of modularity and integration / Kevin J. Sullivan -- Software architecture / Judith A. Stafford, Alexander L. Wolf -- Software architecture design principles / Len Bass -- Product-line architectures / Martin L. Griss -- Measurement and metrics for software components / Jeffrey S. Poulin -- Implementing a practical reuse program for software components / Donald J. Reifer -- Selecting the right COTS software: why requirements are important / Cornelius Ncube, Neil Maiden -- Building instead of buying: a rebuttal / George T. Heineman -- Software component project management / Bill Councill -- The trouble with testing components / Elaine J. Weyuker -- Configuration management and component libraries / Hedley Apperly -- The evolution, maintenance, and management of component-based systems / Mark Vigder -- Overview of the CORBA component model / Nanbor Wang, Douglas C. Schmidt, Carlos O'Ryan -- Overview of COM+ / Tim Ewald -- Overview of the Enterprise JavaBeans component model / David Blevins -- Bonobo and free software GNOME components / Michael Meeks -- Choosing between COM+, EJB, and CCM / Andy Longshaw -- Software agents as next generation software components / Martin L. Griss -- Component-based software engineering as a unique engineering discipline / John Speed, Bill Councill, George T. Heineman -- The future of software components: standards and certification / Janet Flynt, Manoj Desai -- Commercial law applicable to component-based software / Stephen Y. Chow -- Summary / Bill Councill, George T. Heineman -- The near-term future of component-based software engineering / Hedley Apperly ... [et al.].

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