CoML: Yet Another, But Simple Component Composition Language

Components offer various advantages, such as platform and tool independence but composition languages do not address the same independence. We present a platform independent component composition language called Component Markup Language. CoML offers abstractions for component composition and for meta information. We envision different usage scenarios for CoML as a resource script or input for software engineering tools, such as development tools, GUI builders, architecture visualizer tools etc.

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