Towards a Versioning Model for Component-based Software Assembly

  • Authors:
  • Jaroslav Gergic

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The world of software development has rapidly changedin the last few years due to the adoption of component-basedtechnologies. The classical software configuration management,which deals with source code versioning, becomesinsufficient in the world where most components are distributedin a binary form. This paper focuses on solving versioningissues in the SOFA/DCUP component environment,however, many ideas introduced in this paper are applicablein other component-based environments. The paper incorporatesthe following versioning issues: component andtype identification, component and type evolution, componentversion description model and component retrievingbased on the version description model. It also outlinesa prototype repository designed as a proof of concept.