Components and the world of chaos

Many writers espouse the idea that commercial software development will soon consist of tribes of monkeys assembling commercially available components, resulting in faster development, significantly reduced costs, and more reliable software. Although we all dream that complex applications development will eventually become faster, cheaper, and better, realizing this dream with components as currently conceived has some fundamental flaws. Application development in the component world involves three categories of development: designing and developing component implementation and constructing applications. We focus on the latter-constructing application components and applications using a component framework and a suite of existing components.