A case study on building a GTS system using COTS components

L. Iribarne, J.M. Troya and A. Vallecillo.

Technical Report TR-2002-09-01. Department of Lenguajes y Computación, University of Almería, Spain.

Abstract

Commercial components (COTS) is being used more and more in Component-Based Software Engineering for building software applications, and accordingly, some mechanisms are demanded by developers of software applications to describe, search, select and compose COTS components. Currently, a unified criteria for the specification of COTS components neither for the specification of software architectures based on this kind of components is not defined. Besides, current trading services do not support processes based on commercial components. In this paper we develop a case study on building a COTS-based application using a trading service for COTS components. This case study covers three aspects: (a) the description of the software architecture using UML-RT, (b) a model for the specification of COTS components and (c) a trading process for COTS components.

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