CATEGORICAL APPROACH FOR IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT ARCHITECTURE

A system produces a component framework that insulates components from an underlying communication infrastructure by receiving a component descriptor that specifies fundamental properties of a component and receiving a definition of remotable interfaces associated with the component. A generation tool emits a component framework that includes: i) a coInterface interface that exposes the component's remotable interfaces; ii) a coFactories interface that declares factories for component operation; iii) a template for a coClass class, the coClass class operable to receive developer programmed functionality; and iv) a coBridge class that extends the coClass class and functions as a morphism from an IDL-defined component to an object model based, middleware-independent component.