Application Units: Basic Building Blocks of Tailorable Applications

Application units (AUs) are defined as the smallest self-contained units to be useful in the design and implementation of end-user tailorable applications, such as word processors, drawing programs, and e-mail systems. The notion of application units has been inspired by similar basic building blocks: Lego bricks, HyperCard buttons+scripts, MVC triads, and architectural patterns. It is proposed as a solution to problems in maintenance, reuse, and further development of generic software applications.

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