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A Method to Customize the Variability of EJB-Based Components  

Min Hyun-Gi (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim Sung-Ahn (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Lee Jin-Yeal (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim Soo-Dong (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.33, no.6, 2006 , pp. 539-549 More about this Journal
Abstract
Component-Based Development (CBD) has emerged as a new effective technology that reduces development cost and time-to-market by assembling reusable components in developing software. The degree of conformance to standards and common features in a domain largely determines the reusability of components. In addition, variability within commonality should also be modeled and customization mechanism for the variability should be designed into components. Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is considered a most suitable environment for implementing components. However. the reusability of EJB is limited because EJB does not have built-in variability design mechanisms. In this paper, we present efficient variability design techniques for implementing components in EJB. We propose a method to customize the variability of EJB-based components by applying three variability design mechanisms; selection, plug-in, and external profile. And we elaborate the suitable situations where each variability design mechanism can be applied, and conduct a technical comparison to other approaches available.
Keywords
Component-Based Development (CBD); Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB); Component Variability; Component Customization;
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