Design Methodology for a Modular Component Based Software Architecture

This paper describes a component-based software architecture and design methodology, which will enable efficient engineering, deployment, and run-time management of reconfigurable ambient intelligent services. A specific application of a media player is taken as an example to show the development of software bundles according to the proposed methodology. Furthermore, a software tool has been developed to facilitate composition and graphical representation of component based services. The tool will provide a model of a generic reusable component, and the user of the tool will be able to instantiate reusable components using this model implementation. The work has been carried out within the European project COMANCHE that will utilize component models to support Software Configuration Management.