On the yellow brick road to component-based product lines

Abstract

We present our experience using process-centered environments to build, maintain, reengineer and develop sets of related products. A process-centered environment is itself a collection of applications, such as clients and servers, that work together to provide a set of services. We discuss the OzMarvel and EmeraldCity environments that we designed to develop the Oz process-centered environment. Oz's support for process interoperability played a key role in constructing a component-based product line process.