System development through the reuse of existing components

摘要

The problems of successful software reuse have occupied the time of many researchers over the last ten years. This paper describes a field of research carried out at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, during the Alvey-funded Eclipse project 11. It describes the Component Description Language developed to support reuse by modelling the interfaces that exist between related software components. Support for the language is given in the form of a graphical representation, which it is believed will help speed up system development.