Component Oriented Development...

Change components with pieces of code or objects

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Models which fit well

Don't care what's inside a component

Only interested in component interfaces and overall functionality

Components can be of many different types and can be developed by different manufacturers

Systems are constructed by putting components together

The user does not need to know where the component is physically located

Component is invoked transparently

We shall consider the web to be composed of a number of such components put together ...