Achieving seamless component composition through scenario-based deep adaptation and generation

Liu, Xiaodong; Wang, Bei Hu (Tiger); Kerridge, Jon

Abstract

Mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applications have been a major factor hindering component reusability and successful composition. Although component adaptation has acted as a key solution of eliminating these mismatches, deep adaptation is often either impossible or incurring heavy overheads in the components. This paper proposes an approach, namely Scenario-based dynamic component Adaptation and Generation (SAGA), to achieve deep adaptation with little code overhead through XML-based component specification, interrelated adaptation scenarios and corresponding component adaptation and generation.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2005-04
• Deposit Date: May 23, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: May 23, 2008
• Journal: Science of Computer Programming
• Print ISSN: 0167-6423
• Electronic ISSN: 1872-7964
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 157-170
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2004.11.010
• Keywords: Software engineering; Reusable software; Component composition; Component definition language; Component generation; Component reuse; Scenario-based adapation; Document preparation; XML
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1795
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2004.11.010
• Contract Date: May 23, 2008