SEC: a search engine for component based software development

The successfulness of the component-based development(CBD) process relies on several factors including the structuration of the component repositories and the comparison procedures for interface exploring while comparing the expected and the provided services. Both functional and non-functional aspects should be considered. This paper presents a discovery ontology to organize components in a repository and an integration ontology to integrate a component into an application. In addition, we propose a search engine, called SEC for CBD, which uses the discovery ontology to automatically locates and presents a list of software components that could be used in the current development situation. This search engine consists of a persistent and an intelligent component which automatically generates a query from developer specification and indexes a repository of software components. SEC is not only suitable to discover components, but also able to automatically classify the selected components using the subsumption notion.

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