Constructing COTS-based software components with reusing COTS products

Author

Lee, Sheng-Chin ; Lin, Jim-Min ; Jiau, Hewijin C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Feng Chia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

296

Abstract

The paper proposes an approach to reusing COTS software products to construct software components. This approach supports software component designers to develop software components rapidly by reusing COTS software products under a uniform software component model. We call those software components by reusing COTS software as COTS-Based software components, in short COTSB components. A software component specification is defined to serve COTSB components. It can be applied on cross platforms. Moreover, a software re-engineering technique named wrapping is used to support reusing COTS software as COTSB components. We also adopt two existing design patterns-Adapter and Abstract Factory as a systematic design approach for designing and implementing COTSB components. It can be regarded as a design blueprint for the COTSB component designers

Keywords

formal specification; software reusability; Abstract Factory; Adapter; COTS software product reuse; COTS-based software components; software component specification; software re-engineering technique; wrapping; Assembly systems; Cities and towns; Computer industry; Production facilities; Programming; Software design; Software engineering; Software reusability; Software systems; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2000. Proceedings. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0933-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2000.897225

Filename

897225