An Integrated Component-Based Approach to Enterprise System Specification and Development

Component-Based Development (CBD) represents an advanced system development approach, capable for managing complexity and ever-changing demands in the business and IT environment. While many of the component technology solutions have been already settled in practice, of equal importance to their success are the methods and techniques closely aligned with CBD principles. Current methods do not offer a systematic and complete support for component-based way of thinking. This paper presents a new approach to CBD, integrating the component concept consistently into all phases and aspects of the enterprise system development. The approach combines the CBD paradigm and ISO Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP), providing a comprehensive component-based specification and development framework for building enterprise systems of nowadays.