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Title: Component Framework implementation in C++11
Proposer: Sergey Sadovnikov
Proposer: Vladimir Vishnevskii
Type: Presentation
Duration: 90 mins
Description:
Component based approach is widely used in modern software
engineering. The framework that will allow easy reconfiguring of the
allocation of components by distributed executable modules, keep
solution scalable by ability to add new component instances, with
hot-update support via plugins, and extensive support of
interconnection including local and remote IPC can significantly
facilitate large distributed applications development. Unfortunately,
despite the large number of actively developing general purpose C++
frameworks that cover substantial parts of developers’ needs it is
still challenging to find frameworks that support component based
software design, especially if as an addition to the features above it
is also required that this framework has to be free to use,
lightweight and has no heavy-weight dependencies.
In our presentation we explore the motivation for development of our
in-house component framework from scratch, present its design and main
stages of its architecture elaboration including short review of the
component based approach and comparison of the most common patterns
for components interoperability such as Service Locator and IOC
Containers. We also particularly emphasize on C++11 features and how
they were utilized in our design.