One of the difficulties of Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) [1] in reusing pre-existing components is the need to adapt these components to work within the desired target systems [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Third-party or in-house Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS) components may not always have the required exact functionality demanded by the builders of the target system, so these systems have to be either modified [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] or adapted to provide this required functionality. Modifying these components may not be always practically possible. In this thesis, we propose an infrastructure that supports the active interface adaptation technique [3, 8, 9, 10]. This infrastructure directly addresses the problem of effectively packaging components for third-party use, adaptation, and deployment. Doing so we support both component designers and third party application builders. Further we evaluate our approach using several adaptations over the case studies.

Creator

• Unhale, Sudeep Prabhakar

贡献者

• Heineman, George T.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Computer Science

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-0427103-145102

关键词

• blackbox component adaptation
• Active Interfaces
• Component Specification Lanunguage
• component adaptations
• component adaptation technique
• software reuse

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.

Defense date

• 2003-04-18

Year

• 2003

Date created

• 2003-04-27

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright