Chapter 5. Consume

Use of components can occur in different contexts: solution delivery consuming business components, or component delivery consuming technical components. The most common context is the delivery of business solutions to fulfill business needs. Only the use and reuse of components makes today's key development objectives consistent with the delivery of solutions that are fully aligned to business needs.

The consume process forms an umbrella for all those activities that focus on the project-based delivery of business solutions; see Figure 5.1. The following sections describe each of these major processes in detail. Each project starts by gaining an understanding of requirements and ending with the delivery of one or more business ...

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