Achieving seamless component composition through scenario-based deep adaptation and generation

Mismatches between pre-qualified existing components and the particular reuse context in applications have been a major factor hindering component reusability and successful composition. Although component adaptation has acted as a key solution of eliminating these mismatches, deep adaptation is often either impossible or incurring heavy overheads in the components. This paper proposes an approach, namely Scenario-based dynamic component Adaptation and GenerAtion (SAGA), to achieve deep adaptation with little code overhead through XML–based component specification, interrelated adaptation scenarios and corresponding component adaptation and generation. Keywords—Component Reuse, Scenario-Based Adaptation, Component Generation, Component Composition, Component Definition Language, XML.