SE4SC: a specific search engine for software components

Currently component-based software engineering is increasingly being adopted for software development. This approach relies on using reusable components as the building blocks for constructing software systems. As the growth in the popularity of Internet, component providers can publish the components easily on the Internet. Therefore, the major problem facing the component reusers is to find suitable components on the Internet. The solution to this problem lies in applying search engine technology. However, general-purpose search engines are inappropriate to search for software components. Some people developed the specific search engines for software components. But those engines have some limitations. This paper proposes a specific search engine for software components, which provides convenient support for component reusers to search for software components on the Internet.