Annotation-driven development of software components

Annotation-based development is a programming technique which is recently gaining on popularity. The thesis examines ways in which this technique can be applied to development of component applications. Aim of the the thesis was to design a model of run-time annotations for SOFA 2. The annotations are used at run-time phase of application's development cycle to bind, control execution and dynamically update a component. Implementation of the proposed solution is based on standard Java annotations. Further, the thesis proposed a way in which these annotations can be extended to other phases of application's development cycle. The thesis proposes and implements a solution to dynamic update of a basic type of software components. The dynamic update is a process that changes code of a component without suspending the whole component application