A method for software reuse through large component libraries

Although reuse is recognized as a promising approach to producing cheaper and better software, the industrial penetration of reuse methodology has not been impressive. Generally, reuse is restricted to localized contexts, i.e. within a project team or potentially within a small company. The REBOOT project addresses the problem of supporting massive inter-group reuse from a library with a large number of components, and in this paper we discuss in particular the specific technical problems resulting from the size of the library. The first prototype version of the REBOOT reuse environment is finished, and is now being evaluated