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Rhodes, a Process Component Centered Software Engineering Environment

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Enterprise Information Systems II

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Very little work has been done so far to make software processes really reusable. We believe that methodologogical knowledge can be described and reused through Process Components. In the last years, we elaborated RHODES, a Process-centered Software Engineering Environment that allows process users to describe and enact processes. In this paper, we present an extension of RHODES supporting complex components [12,16]. Fist we characterise process component quality and propose a meta-model that defines elementary and complex process components. Then we describe the main constituents of RHODES dealing with components: PBOOL+ language, component management tools, component base, execution kernel.

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  1. IRIT Laboratory, 2, rue Camichel, 31071, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Bernard Coulette & Xavier Crégut

  2. Computer science department, University of Natural Sciences, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, Q5, Hochiminh Ville, Vietnam

    Tran Dan Thu & Dong Thi Bich Thuy

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    Bernadette Sharp BSc, MPhil, PhD, FBCS, IEEE, MI Inf Sc.

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Coulette, B., Thu, T.D., Crégut, X., Thuy, D.T.B. (2001). Rhodes, a Process Component Centered Software Engineering Environment. In: Sharp, B., Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1427-3_25

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