A framework for domain-specific reusable components

Component-based software development is facing a number of issues that require further research, one of which is ease and effectiveness of component reuse by application developers. As an emerging approach, the goal of this research is to explore the application of Atomic Domains and their Wrappers (defined in previous work) in developing reusable domain-specific components. Based on domain engineering, this research promotes reuse by defining a framework for the design of highly reusable domain-specific components. Significant literature on component-based software development proposes a variety of solutions to the problem of achieving effective component reuse. As a functional model for proof of concept, this research on reusable components resulted in a working model based around the concepts of the Atomic Domain and Wrapper. The application domain for this working model is database applications. From this model, a framework was defined to promote and facilitate the construction of atomic domains for other application domains.