CompoBook

Managers Track

Contents

In_Short

Overview

An Open Market 9

Why should we want this? 9

The embedded component model 10

The demonstration toolkit 10

Worldwide cooperation 11

The Promise 12

Software building performance is still inadequate 13

An examination of the current way of software creation 13

History 13

Secondary effects of the approach 13

Differences with hardware 13

Similar developments in software 13

Market place 14

The secrets of the success of components 14

New developments 14

XML 15

The way out 16

A new open market for embeddable components 19

Why a new market? 20

Why pursuing this? 22

What is the reason? 24

Is such a steep improvement possible? 26

So, what are the tricks? 28

Why software generation differs 31

What occurred differently? 33

Why is object orientation only a partial solution? 36

Class libraries can be a benefit and a drawback 38

Real components offer the salvage 41

How much is the difference? 45

Reuse 50

Robustness 52

Enabling cooperation 55

What is a software component? 57

Software component object model 59

What must be done? 63

Repositories 73

Interfaces and types 75

Late settable parameters 79

Infrastructure 81

Lacks in current technology 83

The market 85

Feasibility 88

Achievement 90

A paradigm shift for programming efficiency 93

The essential ingredients 96

Urgency in embedded applications 113

Influence of reduced production efficiency 115

Influence of reduced robustness 130

Recall costs 139

Conclusion 145

Formal specification document repositories in short 153

The structure of formal specification document repositories 182