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Fyodor,
In the Oberon Tribune Clemens Szyperski defined COP as a refined variation
on OOP:
http://www.oberon.ch/resources/component_software/cop.html
The WCOP page at
http://segroup.cs.rug.nl/WCOP2003/ emphasizes also the dual
nature of components between technology and markets leading to non-technical
aspects of components, including marketing, distribution, selection,
licensing, and so on:
"COP aims at producing software components for a component market and for
late composition. Composers are third parties, possibly the end users, who
are not able or willing to change components. This requires standards to
allow independently created components to interoperate, and specifications
that put the composer into the position to decide what can be composed under
which conditions. On these grounds, WCOP'96 led to the following definition:
A component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces
and explicit context dependencies only. Components can be deployed
independently and are subject to composition by third parties."
With best regards
Marc,
Oberon microsystems, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Dienstag, 4. März 2003 15:09
> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Cc: F.V.Tkachov
> Subject: definition of COP
>
>
> Hi All!
>
> Could anyone define Component-Oriented Programming in one,
> preferably short,
> paragraph?
>
> Not what COP "is about", but what it *is*.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Fyodor Tkachov
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