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Trends

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Growth of web services. The advent of web services represents an important stage in the transition of software into tradeable commodities.  Software componentry involves a separation of the external services (the "commodity" that provides value to the consumer) from the internal mechanism. Web services takes this separation one step further - so that the mechanism itself is hidden, and the consumer pays for the services rather than the mechanism.
Web Services
Growth of telecoms. While the software industry follows the drama being played out by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun, the telecoms companies are quietly staking out an important position.
Open Distributed Processing
Growth of biological metaphors.  Software components (including so-called intelligent agents) are released into a giant (global) ecosystem.  Some move about and reproduce themselves (like animals).  Some remain stationary and disseminate copies and links to themselves (like plants). 
Component Ecosystems
Extending 'plug-and-play' into the business arena.  Constructing solutions from ready-made building blocks (plug-and-play) seems very attractive, not just for software, but for whole business operations. 
Component-Based Business
Convergence of engineering and economics.  Proper system of metrics - linking engineering characteristics with ecological success and commercial value.  Option pricing and the hedonic pricing model may be applied to software components.

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Myths of Component-Based Software Engineering

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The primary task of CBSE is to build software components. Wrong. The whole point is NOT to build components. Not-Building leads to Not-Testing, Not-Maintaining, Not-Monkeying-Around.
Trust and security can be achieved by installing trustworthy components. Wrong. Trust and security are system-wide properties, and are not localized in a single component.
A software component satisfies a unique specification. Wrong. If a component satisfies a given specification, it also satisfies all weaker specifications. 

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White Papers and Other Materials

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Component Design (HTML) connectivity, flexibility, availability, quality, economies of scale, pleasure May 1999
Component Ecosystems (HTML)

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components, encapsulation, reuse, plug'n'play April 1999
Component Requirements (HTML)

Understanding Business Requirements in terms of Components (Acrobat file)

Defining Requirements for Software Components (Acrobat file)

requirements April 1999
Software Component Quality (HTML) quality, testing February 1997
Component-Based Development for Y2K and Euro(HTML) CBD, Year 2000, Euro January 1999
CBD and ODP Briefing (Acrobat file) January 1999
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Books on Software Components

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John Cheesman & John Daniels

UML Components
A simple process for specifying component-based software

Addison Wesley, 2000

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Desmond D'Souza & Alan Cameron Wills 

Objects, Components and Frameworks with UML:
The Catalysis Approach

Addison-Wesley, 1999

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Paul Allen & Stuart Frost 

Component-Based Development for Enterprise Systems:
Applying the SELECT Perspective

Cambridge University Press & SIGS Books, 1998

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Richard Veryard 

Component-Based Business: Plug and Play

Springer 2001

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