Health Report on Component Based Development

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Health Report on Component Based Development

by Andre Leclerc

November 20, 2000


The last few years have seen a flurry of activities surrounding component based development (CBD), web-and Internet-enabled software development. How pervasive (and how successful) is CBD? Some recent statistics from the Cutter Consortium reveal the overall picture and, as the old saying goes, “the more things change, the more they stay the same." CBD is here to stay; this is abundantly obvious to any software project manager. However it seems that the same bugaboos that have plagued software projects of the past are still with us today.

Out of 50 Fortune 500 companies surveyed, an overwhelming 70 percent claim to be using components somewhere in their software development practice. Just two years ago, that same statistic was 22 percent. Only 17 percent claim no use of components. Of those using CBD, 37 percent use Java Beans, 34 percent  use COM objects and 23 percent use the CORBA model. This is a significant increase for EJBs over the last two years. The loser is CORBA with ever-declining market share.

I predict that within two years the 70 percent figure will increase to 90 percent, Java Beans will take over the component market up to 50 percent, and COM will keep gaining market share to the detriment of CORBA.



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