Reuse News Brief - 96-05-31.txt [1/1]

Reuse News Brief - 96-05-31.txt [1/1]

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Reuse News Brief
Week Ending: May 31, 1996

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WWW COULD BECOME THE VEHICLE OF CHOICE FOR EXCHANGING 
REUSABLE SOFTWARE
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The Reuse Interoperability Group (RIG) in Arlington, Va., 
has developed "bindings" that will let users in different 
organizations link software reuse libraries and exchange 
software via the World Wide Web. The bindings provide 
standards for conveying information about software assets to 
and from the Web. Software assets can include source-code 
routines, commercial packages, documentation, specifications 
or test suites. 

RIG efforts are providing a uniform method of access 
enabling organizations to reuse assets which were otherwise 
unreachable due to lack of connectivity between libraries. 
"The WWW is becoming the vehicle of choice" for locating and 
exchanging reusable software, said Tim Niesen, a senior 
engineer at Raytheon Co.

More information about the Web bindings and demonstrations 
of early test implementations are available at:
http://www.rig.org/TC7.html

SOURCE:
Anthes, Gary H. "Seekers of reusable code can now pull it 
	from Web," Computerworld. May 13, 1996: 69..

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