Supporting Component Oriented Development with Reusable Autonomous Classes

Reuse during development of software systems has long been touted as a mechanism of reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding up development. At the same time the ability to develop systems using a predominantly graphical approach has long been promised but has never really delivered. The described development approach aims to address both of these issues, by providing a development framework designed to maximize reuse, while simplifying the development effort. A secondary aim, to include mechanisms that implicitly offer support for contemporary software development processes, is also addressed by the proposed development framework