Conclusion

- The responsibilities of Component Management are becoming increasingly necessary to succeed in today's CBSE-oriented world.

- The main differences among the number of component management tools are the level of component technology independence and their integration with design tools and IDEs. Examples tools include: The Aonix Select Component Manager (www.aonix.com), COOL: Jex from Computer Associates (www.ca.com) and Visual Component Manager from Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).

- A new tool is GIT, Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency (git-scm.com).