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BC: Business component.
BCVM: Business component virtual machine.
BCSM: Business component system model.
BLC: Business language class.
Business component: The software implementation of an autonomous business concept or business process. It consists of all the software artifacts necessary to represent, implement, and deploy a given business concept as an autonomous, reusable element of a larger distributed information system.
Business component assembly: The closed set of business components on which a given business component depends.
Business component factory: Business component factory: An efficient software development capability able to cost-effectively and rapidly mass-produce, in a repeatable way, high-quality business components satisying functional and extra-functional requirements.
Business component system: A composition of business components across one or more functional layers that constitutes a viable system.
Business component system model: A model representing the business components in a business component system, together with their interdependencies.
Business component virtual machine: The implementation of the technical architecture. It includes the set of development tools and run-time deliverables that enable business components to be built and run independently of underlying plumbing and software technology considerations.