Standards, Certification, Technology and Tools

There is still no standard in documenting subsystems, components and other reusable assets.

UML can be used to document design.

Rational has come up with Reusable Assets Specification RAS. See www.rational.com/eda/ras/preview/index.htm.

Message Oriented Middleware and Message Queuing Middleware MQM will develop models for their asynchronous domains.

Component models will continue to evolve.

Rich UML models and effective descriptions will aid the creation of better tools to support component reuse.