A survey on various component repositories with detail study of different methods of storage and extraction of components

Software components have played an important role in modern software and system development. The main contribution of software components is reuse which helps reduces development cost and time and increase productivity. There must be some system or an application which can efficiently store and retrieve software assets so they can be easily reused whenever same type of functionality is desired. There are so many existing software reusable component repositories which have been introduced in this paper. Information in this paper will be very useful for the developer while developing well organized, user-friendly and efficiently browse able repositories.