Component software sets out to address some of the fundamental problems separating
software construction as executed today from a long-held vision of reuse, extensibility, and …

The essence of component-oriented programming is a new understanding of extensibility in
which the development and integration of extensions is a distributed activity, not a …

The past three decades have seen a plethora of language features for large-scale software
composition. Some of these are fairly simple, others quite sophisticated. Each embodies an …

Component programming techniques encourage abstraction and reuse through external
linking. Some parts of a program, however, must use concrete, internally specified …

Oriented Programming (AOP) styles of progrmnming. The key idea behind module systems
is that by allowing the language to enforce encapsulation of implementation details behind …

The terms component and component framework are currently used differently, depending
on context and products. Different understandings can be found for instance with Delphi …

To our point of view, adaptability is a key characteristic of components and should be at the
heart of any proper component model. However, contrarily to the object crystal-box model of …

Module mechanisms have received considerable theoretical attention, but the associated
concepts of separate compilation and linking have not been emphasized. Anomalous …

The last decade has shown that object-oriented technology alone is not enough to cope with
the rapidly changing requirements of present-day applications. Typically, objectoriented …

This dissertation presents a framework for the application of compositional modularity, a
module model that facilitates extensive reuse of highly decomposed software …