Dissertation. Intoduction of a software development method, called Fexible Packaging, which allows a component developer to defer many decisions about component interaction until system intergration thus preventing software packaging mismatches. Using this method, a system intergrator first selects a component,called a ware, with few interaction commitments and then writes a packaging description, which captures how the ware is to interact with other components. Given a ware and a packaging description, the Flexible Packaging system automatically produces the source code, non-code artifacts, and construction and installation steps needed for the component to exhibit the described form of interaction.

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