Conclusion

The systematic discovery and exploitation of commonality across related software systems is a fundamental requirement for achieving successful CBSE, and domain orientation is one of the most important elements of CBSE. Domain orientation aims at codifying the development knowledge in an application domain as models and components, and using these models and components in applications development. CBSE might be applied most effectively in mature and stable domains where domain-oriented reusable components can be identified.

For CBSE to become the common practice in software engineering, non-technical as well as technical issues for both producers and consumers of reusable components must be addressed. The development cost of reusable components is especially high and CBSE may not happen unless there is a social/organizational infrastructure supporting the production and exchange of components and amortize the development cost. In a corporate environment, a central support organization dedicated to the development, maintenance, and support of reusable components might serve as a support infrastructure.