A reuse-based software development method

Abstract

One of the primary obstacles to the reuse of independently-developed binary components on the industrial level lies in that the existing component technologies do not clearly separate component assembly from component development. To tackle this problem, we propose a new component model, a component assembly method, and a runtime framework, which together amounts to what we call Active Binding Technology. This new component model suggests how to make software components as pure parts, and the assembly method expresses message flows between these components in a model, while the runtime framework performs dependency injection to make the components interact with each other observing type safety constraints. © 2008 IEEE.