CHAPTER 7

Components in Other Languages

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The years since I started writing this book have taken me away from Ruby. First the work on Cloud Foundry, then enterprise clients wanting us to work with Java or .NET. I suspect, eventually, we will all do something else. So, how do component-based concepts carry over to other languages? Do they hold up? Is there even such a thing as components?

In short: yes. In fact, as I discuss in the Introduction, other languages have a long history of this kind of stuff. In this last chapter, I want to point you toward some of the ways components are implemented in some other ...

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