Book - Information and Links Clemens Szyperski with Dominik Gruntz and Stephan Murer Component Software - Beyond Object-Oriented Programming Second Edition Addison-Wesley / ACM Press, 2002 (589 pages) ISBN 0-201-74572-0 First edition: first printing end 1997, reprinted in 1998 (twice) and 1999 (twice), each with minor corrections. Second edition: first printed late 2002. The second edition is a major revision and extension of the first.

Second Edition:

First Edition:

First Edition: Best Book

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Reviews:

• Jeff Livingston, Rational Software, IBM Software Group (April 2003)
• ACCU Book Review (Updated February 2003; no specifics about second edition)
• William Stalling’s Review in Dr. Dobbs (May 1999)
• Amazon page with reviews
• Barnes and Noble page

Courses using or recommending this book

If you are teaching a course that uses/recommends my book, please let me know. (I would be happy to add a link to the following list, if you want.)

• Sten F. Andler and Jonas Mellin’s course Component Software at Linköpings U, Sweden (Spring 2000)
• Yas Abbas Alsultanny’s course Component-Based Languages at Amman Arab University For Graduate Studies, Jordan (2005)
• Anne Aerola’s course Ohjelmistosuunnittelu (Software Engineering) at University of Kuopio, Finland (Winter 2007)
• Andreas S. Andreou and George A. Papadopoulos’s course Advanced Software Engineering at U Cyprus, Greece (2003)
• Marcello Bonsangue’s course Seminarium on Component Based Software Engineering at U Leiden, Netherlands (Spring 2003)
• Eric J. Braude’s course Design Patterns and Components at Boston University Metropolitan College (2002)
• Jane Chandler's course Component Based Development at U Portsmouth, UK (Spring 2000)
• Michel Chaudron’s course Component-Based Software Development at TU Eindhoven, Netherlands (Fall 2004)
• Armin B. Cremers’ course Softwaretechnologie at U Bonn, Germany (Summer 1999)
• Ivica Crnkovic’s course Component-Based Software Engineering at Mälardalen U, Sweden (1999)
• Ivica Crnkovic’s course Advanced Component-Based Software Engineering at Mälardalen U, Sweden (2004)
• Atze Dijkstra’s course Distributed Object Systems at U Utrecht, The Netherlands (Spring 1998)
• Doo-Hwan Bae’s course Component-Based Software Engineering at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (Spring 1999)
• Vahid Garousi’s course Component-Based Software Engineering at U Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Winter 2007)
• Jeremy Gibbons' course Distributed Objects at Oxford University, UK (Fall 2003)
• Wilhelm Hasselbring's course Component-Based Information Systems at Tilburg U, The Netherlands (Fall 1999)
• Alan Hevner’s course Advanced Information Systems Analysis And Design at U South Florida, USA (Spring 2000)
• Bart Jacobs’s course Seminarium Technische Informatica: Componenten at Katholieke U Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Fall 1999)
• Alan Kaplan’s course Component-based Software Engineering: Components, Heterogeneity and Interoperability (Section 1) at Clemson U, USA (Fall 1999)
• John Kuhl’s course Software Engineering Languages and Tools (Component-based Software Systems) at U Iowa, USA (Spring 2002)
• Lech Krzanik’s course Component-Based Software Production at U Oulu, Finland (Spring 2003)
• Gary Leaven’s course Programming Languages 1 at Iowa State U, USA (Fall 1999)
• David Lorenz’s course Component-Based Programming at Northeastern U, Boston, MA, USA (2003)
• Peter Morris’s course Component Software Engineering at U Greenwich, UK (2003)
• Mark Morrissey’s Building Software Systems with Components at Portland State U, OR, USA (2003)
• Louis Martin’s course Génie Logiciel: Conception at U Québec à Montréal, Canada (Spring 2000)
• Dave Naumann’s course CS 674 Theory of Object-oriented Software Design at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA (Spring 2003)
• Erich Ortner’s course Component-Oriented Application Development at TU Darmstadt, Germany (Summer 1998)
• Allen Parrish’s course Fundamentals of Software Components at U Alabama, USA (Spring 1999)
• Bazil Pârv’s course Component-Oriented Programming at Babes-Bolyai U, Romania (Fall 1999)
• Pepper, Cebulla, and Grieskamp’s course Konzepte und Methoden der Dokumentverarbeitung at TU Berlin, Germany (Fall 1999)
• Bill Pugh’s course Programming Language Technologies and Paradigms at U Maryland, USA (Fall 1999)
• Alberto Pravato’s course Programmazione (Applicazioni Client-Server) at U Ca’Foscari, Italy
• Ulrik Pagh Schultz’s course Patterns and Software Architecture (PASA) at Aarhus U, Denmark (2001)
• Linda Seiter’s course Design Patterns and Architectures for Dynamic Object Systems at UC Santa Clara, USA (Fall 1998)
• Emil Sekerinski’s course Selected Topics in Object-Oriented Programming at McMaster U, Canada (Fall 1998)
• Judy Stafford’s course Component-Based Software Engineering at Tufts U, MA, USA (Spring 2003)
• Robert Stroud’s course Internet Technologies and Electronic Commerce at U Newcastle, UK (Fall 1999)
• Eleni Stroulia’s course Software Architecture at U Alberta, Canada (Fall 2001)
• Giancarlo Succi’s course Advanced Object Oriented Systems at U Calgary, Canada (Fall 1998)
• Don Thomas and Jo-Ann Paul’s course Modeling and Co-simulation of Mixed Hardware/Software Systems at CMU, USA (Fall 1998)
• Bruce Watson’s course Component-based Software Construction at TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Winter 1999)
• Wolfgang Weck’s course Component-Oriented Programming at Åbo Akademi, Finland (Spring 1998)
• Ben Zorn’s course Component-Based Software Systems at U Colorado, USA (Spring 1998)

Other references

• IEEE Software (September/October 1998) The Current State of CBSE (Alan W. Brown, Sterling Software; Kurt C. Wallnau, Software Engineering Institut)
• Oberon Bibliography
• Component Technology Homepage
• Software Engineering Resources - Reusability
• Steven Black Consulting: Software Engineering Bookshelf
• ACM Press on First Edition

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