Title "ECMAScript Components Specification"

Authors ECMA

Year 1999

URL http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-290.pdf

Reference ECMA-290 Standard

Summary
The standard describes the use of component-based development from within ECMAScript. To reuse the code, script developers have utilized .js include files, which is better than just having plain script code into the HTML file. Unfortunately, this approach lacks optimality. By following the ECMAScript Component Standard, we can create a ECMAScript component, place it inside a .js file, and define an XML-based interface to describe that component. Thus, ECMAScript code can be wrapped inside a component, which then can be reused by other developers.

Methods
The authors make primarily use of ECMAScript, XML, JavaScript, and HTML.

Systems Integration Relevance
For the OPP project, we are trying to find some standard/specification for describing (software/hardware system) components using a (semi) structural language, such as XML. Although the standard mentioned relates to ECMAScript, efforts are made towards XML-based component descriptions, and some information can be useful within our process of choosing how to describe system components.

Keywords
ECMAScript, XML, JavaScript, HTML.