To analyse the impact of an online registration system at Bindura University of Science Education

Web-based services offer users convenient access to and the ability to manipulate information that is of concern to such services. Due to the high requirements in functionality and performance, these systems are often very large in terms of the size of the underlying software. The use of Component-Based Design (CBD) for web-based software comes into play for this very reason. Not only does Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) address the manageability issue of web based software, but it also ensures greater consistency and high re-usability of web-based components. These advantages in turn lead to better productivity and hence better quality of the overall design of the system. In order to exemplify the effectiveness of CBD, the design and implementation of a component-based online course registration system is proposed for this project. The website will allow students, department members, faculty members and the registry members to view and make changes to course registration related issues for a specific semester. The system will be developed using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which involves grouping components into web services