A Generative and Component based Approach to Reuse in Database Applications

The development of database application systems will benefit from high reusability because similar design circumstances recur frequently in database developments. However, research in software reuse has shown that mismatches of components with the application architecture, state and other components, destroy the component reusability. In this paper, a generative and component based reuse framework is presented to tackle the problem of high variability and therefore to achieve higher reusability in database application development. A Scenario based dynamic component Adaptation and GenerAtion technology (SAGA) is developed to support deep component adaptation and component generation. XML has been used as the universal information carrier in the approach.