Table of Contents

I. MOTIVATION: COMPONENTS AND MARKETS
1. Introduction
2. Market versus technology
3. Standards
II. FOUNDATION
4. What a component is and is not
5. Components, interfaces, and re-entrance
6. Polymorphism
7. Object versus class composition, or how to avoid inheritance
8. Aspects of scale and granularity
9. Patterns, frameworks, architectures
10. Programming: shades of gray
11. What others say
III. COMPONENT MODELS AND PLATFORMS
12. Object and component 'wiring' standards
14. The Microsoft way: COM, OLE/ActiveX, COM+, and .NET CLR 15. The Sun way: Java, JavaBeans, EJB, and Java 2 editions
16. More customs than customers?
17. Strategic comparison
18. Efforts on domain standards
19. Open problems
IV. COMPONENTS MEET ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESS
20. Component architecture
21. Component frameworks
22. Component development
23. Component distribution and acquisition
24. Component assembly
25. On the horizon
V. MARKETS AND COMPONENTS
26. Future markets
27. New professions
28. A component marketing paradox
Epilogue
Appendix A. Java versus C# versus Component Pascal
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Clemens Szperski joined Microsoft Research at its Remond, Washington Facility in 1999 to continue his work component software. In 1992 he received a PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich where he designed and implemented the extensible operating system Ethos.  In 1993 he co-founded Oberon Microsystems, Inc developer of BlackBox Component Builder, first marketed in 1994 and one of the first development environments and component frameworks designed specifically for component-oriented programming projects.