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Abstract

This section lists the explicit features of a component. Parts of it will be found in the conding guildelines and the ACDE architecture.

Defintion

A component is a package has the following porperties:

• All data is local. A component does not used any global data. The interface of a component provides the operations in order to created and delete an instance of the component data.
  
• Component data is not accessed directly. The interface provides functions and procedures to  query and set values of the component data. The functions/procedures do not alter the state of the component as a side effect.
  
• The Interface provides operations (methods) on the component data which are used to change the state of the component.
  

References

[1] Coding Guidelines

[2] ACDE Architecture

[3] ACDE Design Process

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