Retrieval of software components using a distributed web system

✍ Scribed by Anita Behle; Michael Kirchhof; Manfred Nagl; Ralf Welter

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 637 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1084-8045
• DOI: 10.1006/jnca.2002.0134

✦ Synopsis

Software reuse is important, especially product reuse. This paper describes a retrieval system for software components, the most popular form of product reuse. The system is distributed and embedded in the web and is based on structured retrieval using a classi®cation schema.

After de®ning the requirements for the system, we ®rst discuss the advanced outside functionalities of the component retrieval system, as its multi-paradigmatic classi®cation approach, the ability to extend/change the schema, the navigational facility through different views, and the system's interface to search engines. Then, the most interesting topics of the system's realization are discussed, as dynamic web page generation and personalization, how the speci®c environments for different roles are built, how schema modi®cation is handled, and how the system was designed being driven by software for reuse. Some measurements of the system's outside behavior and its convenience for users are given.