Enhancing component interactivity and manageability using delegates

Abstract

Software components enable practical reuse of software parts and amortization of investments over multiple applications. Software components are binary units of independent production, acquisition that are combined together to form a functioning system. Building solution by combining bought and made components improves quality and supports rapid development, leading to short time to market. For these reasons, component technology is expected by many to be the corner stone of software in the year to come. Even though component software is a very promising way of building applications, it is very naïve to think that several components can be picked from a catalog and wired together to form the final product. In real life adopting a component approach poses several problems and rise several important challenges. The aim of this thesis is to identify some of these challenges and problems and to propose an adequate solution to reach successful final software.