Research Directions in Software Composition
ACM Computing Surveys, 27 (2):
262--264 (June 1995)Abstract
Software composition refers to the construction of software
applications from components that implement abstractions pertaining to
a particular problem domain. Raising the level of abstraction is a
time-honored way of dealing with complexity, but the real benefit of
composable software systems lies in their increased flexibility:
a system built from components should be easy to recompose to address
new requirements. A certain amount of success has been achieved in
some well-understood application domains, as witnessed by the
popularity of user-interface toolkits, fourth generation languages and
application generators. But how can we generalize this?
