Component Configuration In Component Based Systems

The world of software development has rapidly changed in the last few years due to the adoption of component- based technologies. The classical software configuration management, which deals with source code versioning, becomes insufficient in the world where most components are distributed in a binary form. The task of configuration management is not well supported by conventional files, directories and ad-hoc persistence mechanisms. Typed, immutable objects combined with ubiquitous versioning provide a much more sound base. In this paper, an effort has been made to analyze the application of configuration management in component-based systems. This paper also summarizes that some level of configuration control can be achieved if components are identified with their version and dependencies to other components.