A domain-specific component-based methodology for the rapid development of small business applications

The years of experience revealed that most of the business applications have some common characteristics that can be exploited to enforce and enhance reusability. We believe that such common characteristics in small business applications are business processes, business rules, and business objects that they implement. Our conjecture is that these common characteristics can be used to enhance reusability in the development of small business applications. The idea is to directly use domain concepts to develop domain-specific applications. In this paper we propose a component-based rapid application development model for small business application domain. This model allows the application developers Io build small business applications using prefabricated domain-specific components with minimum cost and effort.