Component reuse in electronic services development

Issue title: Selected papers from the International Conference on Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, e-Business, and Applications, 2004

Guest editors: Narayan C. Debnath

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Vassilakis, Costas^{; *} | Lepouras, George

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Terma Karaiskaki, 22100, Tripolis, Greece

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +30 2710 372203; Fax: +30 2710 372160; E-mail: costas@uop.gr.

Abstract: In the context of electronic government, e-services are a valuable instrument for offering high quality services to enterprises and individual citizens alike. While developing an e-service, it is usually possible to reuse elements that have already crafted for other e-services, such as personal detail forms or widgets for collecting social security numbers, decreasing thus both development effort and the time for deployment. A more generic framework for supporting reusability in development of e-services includes the identification of reusable objects, the creation and population of a repository containing such components, and the empowerment of developers with tools allowing for location, retrieval and adaptation of components for suiting their specific tasks. In this paper, we conduct an analysis to recognise e-service component that offer reusability opportunities and we present facilities and methods to enable e-service developers to exploit these opportunities while developing electronic services.

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2006-6S202

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 6, no. s2, pp. S229-S241, 2006