On Characteristics and Differences of Component Execution Environments

K.-K. Lau and V. Ukis
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
kung-kiu,vu@cs.man.ac.uk

Abstract:

Binary components are typically deployed into an execution environment. 
The execution environment impacts to a great extent how the components
will execute at runtime. Current component models, however, neglect
this fact. It is assumed that a component can run in any execution
environment. In order to defeat this assumption, in this report we
investigate current widely proliferated execution environments for
components. We show what they are, characteristics they possess and
differences they exhibit. The differences lead us to the 
insights why and how the component execution environment influences
component runtime execution.