Distributed component technologies and their software engineering implications

• Published in: International Conference on Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering; 19-25 May 2002 pp. 537 - 546
• Main Author: Emmerich, Wolfgang
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.2002
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures; Exact sciences and technology; Networks > Network architectures; Software; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software > Requirements analysis; Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > Context specific languages > Domain specific languages; Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures; Software engineering; Software tool; Software architecture; JAVA language; Systems engineering; Distributed algorithm; Iterative process; Model specification; Common object request broker architecture; Model driven architecture; Distributed system; Software component; Software engineering
• ISBN: 158113472X; 9781581134728
• ISSN: 0270-5257; 1558-1225
• DOI: 10.1145/581339.581405

In this state of the art report, we review advances in distributed component technologies, such as the Enterprise Java Beans specification and the CORBA Component Model. We assess the state of industrial practice in the use of distributed components. We show several architectural styles for whose implementation distributed components have been used successfully. We review the use of iterative and incremental development processes and the notion of model driven architecture. We then assess the state of the art in research into novel software engineering methods and tools for the modelling, reasoning and deployment of distributed components. The open problems identified during this review result in the formulation of a research agenda that will contribute to the systematic engineering of distributed systems based on component technologies.