Design and implementation of component repository for supporting the component based development process

Abstract

CBD (component based software development) has become an interesting field in the development of business applications. Because CBD represents a new development paradigm for composing applications from software components, increasing requirements for productivity of flexible system development can be solved using CBD technologies. The component repository is the most important part in the CBD process. In practice, to reuse components in CBD deployment, we must store and manage the related work-products from each step of component development as well as the component itself using a component repository. In this paper, we try to clarify CBD-related theories as practical techniques to be applied to real systems. So, we suggested individual technique theory for repository construction to support and realize the CBD process. CRPS (component repository prototyping system) was also constructed for supporting the CBD process based on architecture. CRPS supports the CBD process by managing the variety of component products classified by each step of the component life cycle and business domain based on component architecture.