What characterizes a (software) component? - Manfred Broy; Anton Deimel; Juergen Henn; Kai Koskimies; Frantisek Plásil; Gustav Pomberger; Wolfgang Pree; Michael Stal; Clemens A. Szyperski (Softw. Concepts Tools, 1998)

IBM San Francisco - Object-oriented infrastructure and reusable business components for distributed, multi-platform business applications - implemented entirely in Java. - Juergen Henn (Softw. Concepts Tools, 1998)