Design of Reusable Components using Drag and Drop Mechanism

Abstract

The fundamental unit of large scale software construction is the component. A component is the fundamental user interface object in Java. Everything you see on the display in a Java application is a component. The ability to let users drag a component from the interface and drop into your application is almost a requirement of a modern, commercial user interface. This paper describes the component repository which provides functionality for component reuse process through the drag and drop mechanism