Software Architecture: Foundation of a Software Component Marketplace
E. James Whitehead, Jason E. Robbins, Nenad Medvidović, Richard N. Taylor · 1997
This paper provides a characterization of software architectures which become the foundation for the estab-lishment of marketplaces for software components. A description is made of a framework of key properties that a software architecture should exhibit to be the basis of a component marketplace. As examples of existing software component marketplaces, Unix filter and Visual Basic VBX marketplaces are examined with respect to this framework. The Chiron-2 architectural style is analyzed with respect to these properties to determine its potential as a future soft-ware component marketplace in the user interface domain.1. The goal of a software components marketplace, though