Harvesting Reusable Assets

In my previous article, http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2004_01/column7, we discussed how large reusable assets could provide the seed to design and build complex solutions. As a quick recap we reused large-grained composite e-business patterns (http://www106.ibm.com/developerworks/patterns/select-pattern.html) within a methodology that was modified to match customer requirements to an appropriate asset that could provide a significant seed for the solution, and walked through the process of how to modify and extend the seed to derive a solution that handled the complex requirements.