Component-based Development - Technologies

Technologies

• Business object technologies
  • Newi
• Component-based software frameworks for specific domains
  • Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF)
• Component-oriented programming
  • Bundles as defined by the OSGi Service Platform
  • Component web platform for modular js, css, and other assets
  • Common Component Architecture (CCA) - Common Component Architecture Forum, Scientific/HPC Component Software
  • TASCS - SciDAC Center for Technology for Advanced Scientific Component Software
  • Eiffel programming language
  • Enterprise JavaBeans from Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)
  • Flow-based programming
  • Fractal component model from ObjectWeb
  • MidCOM component framework for Midgard and PHP
  • Oberon, Component Pascal, and BlackBox Component Builder
  • rCOS method of component-based model driven design from UNU-IIST
  • SOFA component system from ObjectWeb
  • The System.ComponentModel namespace in Microsoft .NET
  • Unity3D developed by Unity Technologies
  • UNO from the OpenOffice.org office suite
  • VCL and CLX from Borland and similar free LCL library.
  • Visual Basic Extensions, OCX/ActiveX/COM and DCOM from Microsoft
  • XPCOM from Mozilla Foundation
• Compound document technologies
  • Active Documents in Oberon System and BlackBox Component Builder
  • Bonobo (component model), a part of GNOME
  • Fresco
  • KPart, the KDE compound document technology
  • Object linking and embedding (OLE)
  • OpenDoc
• Distributed computing software components
  • .NET Remoting from Microsoft
  • 9P distributed protocol developed for Plan 9, and used by Inferno and other systems.
  • CORBA and the CORBA Component Model from the Object Management Group
  • D-Bus from the freedesktop.org organization
  • DCOP from KDE (deprecated)
  • DCOM and later versions of COM (and COM+) from Microsoft
  • DSOM and SOM from IBM (now scrapped)
  • ICE from ZeroC
  • Java EE from Sun
  • Universal Network Objects (UNO) from OpenOffice.org
  • Web services
    • REST
  • Zope from Zope Corporation
• Generic programming emphasizes separation of algorithms from data representation
• Interface description languages (IDLs)
  • Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs)
  • Part of both COM and CORBA
  • Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language
  • SIDL - Scientific Interface Definition Language
    • Part of the Babel Scientific Programming Language Interoperability System (SIDL and Babel are core technologies of the CCA and the SciDAC TASCS Center - see above.)
  • SOAP IDL from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • WDDX
  • XML-RPC, the predecessor of SOAP
• Inversion of Control (IoC) and Plain Old C++/Java Object (POCO/POJO) component frameworks
• Pipes and Filters
  • Unix operating system