Semantic Annotation, Publication, and Discovery ofJava Software Components: An Integrated Approach

Data Structures

计算机科学;物理学

Zinon Zygkostiotis ; Dimitris Dranidis ; Dimitrios Kourtesis

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-475/AISEW2009/18-pp-168-178-201.pdf
PID  :  50160

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Component-based software development has matured into standard practice in software engineering. Among the advantages of reusing software modules are lower costs, faster development, more manageable code, increased productivity, and improved software quality. As the number of available software components has grown, so has the need for effective component search and retrieval. Traditional search approaches, such as keyword matching, have proved ineffective when applied to software components. Applying a semantically-enhanced approach to component classification, publication, and discovery can greatly increase the efficiency of searching and retrieving software components. This hasbeen already applied in the context of Web technologies, and Web services in particular, in the frame of Semantic Web Services research. This paper examines the similarities between software components and Web services and adapts an existing Semantic Web Service publication and discovery solution into a software component annotation and discovery tool which is implemented as an Eclipse plug-in.