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Composing Distributed Components with the Component Workbench

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Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2002)

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Although software components have gained importance, support for the composition of distributed components is still limited. Worse, if components implemented for different component models need to interact with each other, the composition process becomes a nightmare. Though, bridging technologies for different component models have been standardized, almost no implementations of these exist so far. In this paper, we present the Component Workbench (CWB), a flexible toolkit for the composition of components. Due to CWB’s modular design and a generic component model used for the internal representation of the components, it supports the composition of components implemented for different component models.

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  1. Institut für Informationssysteme, Technische Universität Wien, Argentinierstraße 8/E184-1, A-1040, Wien, Austria

    Johann Oberleitner & Thomas Gschwind

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  1. Dipartimento di Informazione e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, via Ravasi, 2, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Alberto Coen-Porisini

  2. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    André van der Hoek

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Oberleitner, J., Gschwind, T. (2003). Composing Distributed Components with the Component Workbench. In: Coen-Porisini, A., van der Hoek, A. (eds) Software Engineering and Middleware. SEM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-38093-0_7

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