- Author:
- Bok-Gyu Joo
The current practice of adaptation and integration of program components largely depends on a few built-in features of programming languages. Programmers manually modify program components to meet specific needs, and write glue to build bigger software systems from program components.
Based on the analysis of the current practice of component reuse, we have defined a general and flexible model for process components and a rich set of transformation operations on them. The transformations allow users to automatically adapt the process components to meet the various needs in programming, and automatically compose them to develop programs without writing glue.
We have shown the transformations to be automatable by implementing a prototype system. The usefulness of the approach is illustrated by examples. The method will enhance the current building block approaches in reusability and will significantly reduce the size of component libraries.
Index Terms
- Adaptation and composition of program components
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