关键词: 组件容器, 软件复用, 产品线工程, 产品线体系结构

Abstract: Component containers play a key role as the infrastructure of component-based applications on Internet. Nowadays， various kinds of components are emerging to satisfy requirements of developing Internetware. Hence， it’s becoming more and more important to reuse existing software assets when developing component containers. Product line engineering has proven successful as systematical reuse method in many product families. In this paper， main challenges applying product line engineering to component containers are studied as well as feasible solutions. The authors present product line architecture and product derivation process which comprise a product line of component container， named PLACE. A case illustrating development process of a component container shows improvement of reusability of both architectural modules and source code.

Key words: component container, software reuse, product line engineering, product line architecture