Flow-Design and Event-Based Components

A New Approach in Designing Software Compared to Established Procedures

Abstract

Flow-Design is a new approach in developing software architectures. Flow-Design focuses on data processing function
units and the communication among them. Event-Based Components represent a programming language independent
methodology for implementing Flow-Design and can also be considered as a resulting software architecture. The Event-
Based Components software architecture is structured by components that communicate via events. Therefore it is
compared to the concept of service-oriented architecture and event-driven architecture which aim to create independent
components as well. In conclusion Flow-Design and Event-Based Components provide a platform and programming
language independent concept to develop software components. The resulting components are reusable, maintainable
and testable. Although it can lead to a more complex coding.