State of Component Models Usage: Justifying the ‎Need for a Component Model Selection Framework

The presence of a large number of component models has caused some difficulties in selecting suitable component models to ‎be used, either for research purpose or for software development purpose. Lack of framework or standard that can be used to ‎guide the process of selecting suitable component models is believed to be one of the reasons that have caused the difficulties. ‎Therefore, in this article, the need for a component model selection framework is justified. The selection framework can be ‎applied by the software developers to help them determine suitable component models to be used in their software development ‎projects. Possible contributions of the framework to the research and software development industry communities are also ‎identified. These are achieved by examining the current state of component models usage in both research and software ‎development industry communities, which are obtained from a number of related resources found from exhaustive literature ‎search.