Behavior Modeling, Languages and Diagrams in Component Based Software Development

Considering that the component is the fundamental building block of software systems in CBSD, it is important to investigate methods for implementing its functionality or behavior. The functionality in components is implemented as code in a programming language, as a result the component become dependent on that specific programming language. Behavior modeling can provide a solution to that, increasing the component reusability. Reusability of a component will be higher when its behavior is described in a high level of abstraction (a model) that can be translated in different programming languages. This study investigated and analyzed various modeling diagrams, languages and tools used to specify components behavior.