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Software components are reusable units that have been independently constructed (developed by different developers using different programming languages, tools, and platforms) for building software applications, operating systems and other components. The need for reusability, interoperability, maintainability, adaptability, and distribution boosted the emergence of component technology. Many new technologies have been developed around what is so called Component-Based Software Development (CBSD) or component-ware. Some of these technologies are COM/DCOM, .NET component, JAVA/RMI, and CORBA. Each component technology has its rules which are different from the others. Therefore, it is difficult to develop any application or system based on more than one technology. Agent is a new software paradigm for distributed application development. Agents must have the following characteristics adaptability, mobility, transparency and accountability, ruggedness, self-starters and user centered. This paper introduces a code generation tool for component - based application development. The tool has been developed based on software agent technology and implemented by using JAVA programming language. This tool generates a component-based client application that is written in JAVA programming language. The tool can produce COM components based application, CORBA components based application, or JAVA/RMI components based application. The tool is part of an environment for building component based software Application. This tool consists of three agents: main agent, database agent, and code generation agent. The code generation tool is developed and tested.
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