Abstract:
Generally software is seen as something that is
purchased off-the-shelf. However, this perception is
incorrect, as off-the-shelf software represents only 15
percent of all software development. The remaining
85 percent represents specialized software developed
for large organizations to help them meet their unique
requirements. The competitive nature of such
organizations typically results in rapidly evolving
software requirements. Component-based software
engineering techniques lend themselves favorably to
the development of reconfigurable software. However,
component integration and reconfiguration
complexity issues make component-oriented programs
difficult to maintain, expand and widely reuse.
In this paper we propose a distributed Meta model
driven framework that eases software customization
and redirects this task away from the software
developer to the software user. Through the use of an
application generator tool we realize the concept of
‘model once, generate anywhere’.
