We envision a component generator with knobs thatlet a user choose among design decisions, akin to sim-ilar work for code generation from design patterns [1].Such a tool is sufficiently parameterized to generateany combination of implementation trade-offs on thespectrum from fully static to fully dynamic compo-nents. The components that result can thus exhibitjust the right combination of flexibility, maintainabil-ity, and performance, with a minimum of specificationand hackery on the developer’s part.

for me, a software component is a reusable software element, typically some library classes, usually in source form (not binary form), which differs from Clemens Szyperski’s view