Abstract
Introduction Web applications are commonly assembled from a number of existing components that are combined together to support a custom business process. These are components such as Drupal and SugarCRM, which provide commonly used functionality for content management and user-profile management. The code that connects the components is known as “glue code”.
Highlights
The core idea of the approach is that developers can implement customer requirements by configuring platform components, instead of writing large amounts of “glue code” to wire the components together
Web applications are commonly assembled from a number of existing components that are combined together to support a custom business process
If a company plans to create a series of web applications in the same application domain, it should consider building a configurable platform first
Summary
Web applications are commonly assembled from a number of existing components that are combined together to support a custom business process. The second problem can really be considered a subproblem of the first one: a configurable platform would be of little use if developers had to have detailed knowledge of specific components This primary audience of this article are companies like our hypothetical company Tickets R Us who need to create more maintainable applications and achieve a higher degree of reuse. These users are less likely to be familiar with expressing this information in the format required by a particular barcode component Creating these common interfaces closes the “gap” that exists between how business owners express their requirements and the way developers think about writing glue code. The benefits of this approach are: 1. It raises the level of abstraction: Software platform configurations are defined in the language of the business owner ( known as the domain level), not at the implementation level
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