An Approach to Software Component Specification

Current models for software components have made component-based software engineering practical. However, these models are limited in the sense that their support for the characterization/specification of software components primarily deals with syntactic issues. To avoid mismatch and misuse of components, more comprehensive specification of software components is required, especially in a scenario where components are dynamically discovered and used at run-time over corporate intranets and the Internet. Our approach to software component specification aims at comprehensive interface modelling/packaging for software components. It deals with the semantic, usage, quality as well as syntactic aspects of software component specification.